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To: DesertSapper
How is it an invasion of privacy?

What would you do with the names and addresses of those who receive public assistance if you had it?

Start snooping? on somebody's family that you know? embarrass them in public? or shame their children in school? What good will you do with that information, hm? Turn yourself into self-appointed welfare police?

The taxes levied on you for that support is not voluntarily given, it is your uniformly shared responsibility under the law. We have administrators appointed to oversee that the ones receiving it are qualified by the laws you elected legislators to make, and you have the freedom to examine them for their performance in executing their function. Beyond that, it is none of your business.

The money used is not being stolen, unless someone who receives it is cheating, which again comes under the purview of its administrators.

If you don't like the system, go ahead, voice your opinion, and elect legislators who will change the system. But you're not going to get rid of some form of public assistance. You can only change the size of the budget and the conditions under which it is distributed.

The motivation behind publishing individual names and addresses only targets the recipients for capricious unlawful individual vilification and snooping by busybodies who will use any device to whittle down or eliminate claimants, which is invasion of the individual's privacy and circumstances. It can affect treatment by their neighbors, potential employers, and insurers.

That they are on welfare should be of the nature of a privileged communication only between the applicant and the welfare officer, not open to the general public for misuse. That is not liberalism. It's just common decency in applying the Golden Rule.

36 posted on 09/25/2015 2:10:37 PM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: imardmd1
The taxes levied on you for that support is not voluntarily given, it is your uniformly shared responsibility under the law. We have administrators appointed to oversee that the ones receiving it are qualified by the laws you elected legislators to make, and you have the freedom to examine them for their performance in executing their function. Beyond that, it is none of your business.

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The taxes are not voluntarily given, but what happens to our money is "none of our business"?

37 posted on 09/25/2015 2:16:17 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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