re: Just sat through an interesting "Lunch and Learn" on the welfare system

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These policies have enslaved millions and it is only getting worse. Worse yet, the speaker said that she wished it was an elaborate design by an elite socialist regime - but working in the system, she is 100% confident that its just government passing short term legislation without considering long term damages - and it has gotten to this over time.

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This times a bazillion.

No one crafts legislation like this with the intent to make people into government addicts, they look at it as "what would *I* need in order to recover from this". The problem is that their point of view enables those that seek to abuse the system.

Another poor point of view issue is that the more use a program gets, the more successful it is deemed to be. The more successful it is, the more it gets expanded (because if X is great then X+1 will be even better!). The problem is the "success" is people getting into the program and never leaving it (mainly because there's no weaning-off process).