Being poor again

Let's assume there was no government to help those in distress.

Let's also assume you have a brother who gets hurt on the job and can't do the construction job he has training in.

Being the generous sort, you allow him to move in with you until he gets his situation under control.

How long do you provide his food & shelter before you give him the boot?

When he's able to do his construction job again?

When he's able to do any job?

Let's assume, this same brother brings in a woman late at night while your sleeping (so you can go to your job) and he gets the woman pregnant. Are you more or less willing to continue "supporting" him?

What if he brought people in to your house, while you are working, to booze and do drugs. Do you continue to "support" him?

What if you came home from work one day and your brother started bitching about the kind of food you brought home from the grocery store.

My guess is no matter how liberal you are, you wouldn't put up with that crap for long before your own flesh and blood brother got the boot.

Yet we allow these things to persist for "poor" people for generations. Why?

There may have been no larger influence on my conversion from liberalism to conservatism than Malcolm X. I once read where he accused white people of inventing welfare for blacks so blacks would be pacified just enough to subsist but could never live anywhere but a ghetto white people could avoid.

The result is white people would never have to look at, let alone, do something about poor blacks.

While I disagree with the intention, the result is still the same. Let's just give people more so we can slap ourselves on the back for "doing something" and "having compassion" yet not really do anything about these people souls and forcing a behavior change.

The fact is if you want to stay up until 3:00 am fine, don't ask me to "support" it.

You want to allow yourself to get knocked up, great, figure out a way to pay for your child.

You want to do drugs, awesome, don't do them in the housing we pay for.

The consequence of our current welfare system is an erosion of people soul's and I'm not just talking about "poor" people. I'm also talking about the people who want to "support" people with out getting their hands dirty. People who enable generations of dysfunction with the current welfare system.

People like Beth Schwartz, who want to be able to eat organic lettuce when they have no money.