re: #217 TampaKnight

It was a safety mechanism put in place to aid people who were completely wiped out in the Depression- now, we can argue the merit of this government expansion under FDR…but that was the purpose.

It wasn’t meant to be a perpetual entitlement.

If one were to remove welfare it would have to be replaced with another means of revenue generation for said citizens. Welfare benefits are at best minimal and come with a great deal of constraints and requirements for the recipients.

If it were to be eliminated completely with no alternative we as a society would have far worse problems then with the present budget requirements for these entitlements. In the current economic climate it is completely unfeasible or unthinkable. One would also have to completely reinvent the American economy where most of the jobs have been shipped overseas.