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I didn't listen to his speach...you said... wealth needs to be fairly equally distributed. I'm not saying we need socialism to do so, I'm just saying, if you want a healthy system, it needs to be balanced..  Make it lopsided so that a few people have a lot of the wealth, and you've got a problem.."IMO that is what your saying"... … one thing is true that at any point most of these low income people and now the ones on unemployment could have taken concrete actions to change their path — and some of them  bear a moral responsibility for their failure to act — but it’s also true that our government has relentlessly incentivized every step of their deterioration, all in the name of compassion. Even worse, by providing such generous benefits with no meaningful strings attached, we’ve also essentially immunized thim against the kind of assistance that they truly need — the “tough love” that demands that a man do what he can to help himself through productive work.

The result? Another statistic. Another father who is no longer a role model for his children. Another sadly shortened lifetime’s worth of money (some borrowed from China) paid to sustain a lifestyle not good enough to enjoy and not tough enough to leave. Now I am not talikng about everyone..but there are a lot of them...

 

There’s nothing compassionate about this. And I don’t even believe that the intentions are good.