[ClearCase_guy]

just giving people money.

Oh, yeah. There's a Conservative idea, right there.

[SeekAndFind]

Well, looks like the great Friedrich Hayek, who conservatives look up to (See his classic: THE ROAD TO SERFDOM) doesn't know what he's talking about.

Friedrich Hayek’s argument, appeared in volume 3 of his Law, Legislation, and Liberty, . Here’s the crucial passage:

"The assurance of a certain minimum income for everyone, or a sort of floor below which nobody need fall even when he is unable to provide for himself, appears not only to be wholly legitimate protection against a risk common to all, but a necessary part of the Great Society in which the individual no longer has specific claims on the members of the particular small group into which he was born." (emphasis added)