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Originally Posted by maskedmelon
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What of the people allowed free (or worst yet, paid) admission to the park for stubbing their toes, shitting their pants or walking into a wall. Declaring free admittance for those activities only serves to line the pockets of podiatrists, Hanes and radiologists while encouraging foolish behavior.
A lot of other interesting material in your post that could take us in all kinds of different directions, but I do not want to stray too far at the moment ^^
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The idea that welfare has some Pavlovian effect on people and creates a welfare underclass is a myth largely created out of right wing contempt for impoverished blacks, who would have been an underclass anyway.
That said, having a system of universal single-payer healthcare that takes care of people if they get cancer or break a bone after they just got laid off by their employer who shipped their job overseas isn't rewarding stupidity, it's providing a basic social safety net in an effort to make a capitalist world slightly less shitty to live in than it otherwise could be.
As long as "Fuck you I got mine" is the prevailing ideology in the US, we're going to continue to fall further and further behind the rest of the developed world, as popular contempt for the concept of government makes it increasingly easier for Democrats and Republicans to serve the interests of the elite instead of you.