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Originally Posted by Nihilist_santa
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I agree with you that welfare in the US is not to lift people out of poverty. You are doing what you claim Raev is doing in assuming poverty is a universal standard. People considered impoverished in the US would be middle class in other countries.
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People living in the US making US wages and paying US prices wouldn't be impoverished in other countries making US wages but paying other prices.
But of course if they lived in those countries they'd be making those countries wages.
The main idea of poverty is not being able to purchase what you need to provide for yourself or your family. The currency you are or are not paid in doesn't matter. Impoverished people working for equivalent value in other countries are still poor.
Rape and Murder are human nature... we spend money fighting that. Should we not?