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Old 03-16-2015, 11:46 AM   #21
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Originally Posted by O C Diver View Post
It's economic suicide to allow the percentage of the population on government assistance to continue to grow. Compassion is helping those trapped in the system. Insanity is not reversing the trend before the system collapses. In the USA we are promoting government dependence that is unsustainable.

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I think there are two separate issues.

Welfare: I people are genuinely unemployed the state has 'some sort of obligation' to give them shelter and food so that they don't starve to death.

Subsidies: some forms of business are not economically viable, but are strategically important to a nation for social and self sufficiency reasons.

Eg: England was not able to feed itself in WW11 and had to import goods across the atlantic. If Hitler had built more submarines instead if attacking Russia it is accepted by most historians that the conveys would have been cut off and Britain defeated before the US joined the war.

Lesson is: make sure you can sustain your own population from home produced food and manufactured goods .
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