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01-03-2019, 10:09 PM
It works in small, homogeneous, high trust societies, such as Scandinavia and the Netherlands, for a while.
Then the majority of the men start to get so productive that they no longer need it to raise a family. They start to vote against it along with at least some of their wives who bore them sons, which is a problem to politicians and bureaucrats who depend on the welfare state to hand out bribes to voters in order to stay in power.
Those politicians and bureaucrats bend the system in order to import immigrant voters who will keep them in power. Then you get places like Malmo and South Central LA, where Mexicans have slowly ethnically cleansed Blacks for 25+ years - it's not just whitey who gets screwed.
So far we have not seen any modern civil wars because of this, but given that Germany now has a serious nationalist political party and has its Special Forces forming right wing death squads targeting leftist and migrant leaders, it would appear that the clock is ticking. You only need to have a mediocre grasp of history to know that when Germany has a civil war, it ends badly for everyone.
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01-04-2019, 12:35 AM
It depends on a lot of things and what type of welfare we are talking about.
At the foundational level, all means tested welfare programs (medicaid, free/cheap housing/food stamps/etc) should have two basic rules:
1. Welfare goes to citizens only.
2. If you are on welfare, you are not permitted to breed until you are fiscally sustainable.
This protects limited resources and largely prevents whatever bad behaviors/traits/people from multiplying and becoming multi-generational problems for everyone.
In the US, there are many places that openly advertise that "undocumented immigrants" can access welfare benefits. This should amount to treason in my book. Why? You're using my money to enable and support foreign invaders.
As for controlling breeding, good luck forcing birth control and abortions on to the populace. But this is what needs to be done. Welfare leeches know that if they can just pump out one kid, they are a protected class for nearly two decades; they know how to hustle the system. Cheap/free housing, healthcare, food, money, etc. Pump out a few more kids? More money and longer protection; maybe even long enough to claim retirement benefits right after the last kid hits adulthood.
Right now, we incentivize deadbeats to have up to 40 years of taxpayer funded baby making all the while the hard working guy can't even contemplate having kids until maybe his 30's due to the financial burdens; especially if you want a woman to stay at home.
People easily forget that at some point in the recent past, you could live in a SAFE lower class neighborhood, support a family on one income, and your kids didn't have to worry about trash in their public school. Now, the lower income neighborhoods are hoods filled with illegal/ghetto trash. To do the single income family life and make sure the kid(s) have access to good schools/resources, you need A LOT of money. If you compromise, your kids may pay the price via shitty schooling, absent parents, or violence. Having kids/family, supporting them, and doing it right for the non-welfare seeking person requires enormous hard work, effort, and sacrifice. And there is no guarantee you will reach the minimal requirements in time (i.e your reproduction prime).
For the welfare seeking, just spread your legs in your teens, abandon your kids, and let everyone else clean up your mess for the next several decades.
Simply put, the game is rigged and everything is operating ass backwards. The people who work hard are being punished and the lazy are being rewarded immensely; including the privilege of being able to reproduce with security. Since we can't undo people having welfare babies, the next best alternative is to make them work for it. Make it so painful that they will want to get a real job. Obviously, have exceptions for the truly disabled and infirm but bring the pain to everyone else.
Switching gears to old people entitlements:
We are about to hit Peak Baby Boomer and Social Security/Medicare expenses are going to explode. Personally, I think old folks should fall on their swords for mismanaging things so bad and take a major hit in their entitlements. Fat chance that is gonna happen though.
For Medicare: the whole medical industry in the US needs to convert over to something like the Singaporean model along with higher costs for fat people and people who abuse their bodies repeatedly. That's a whole another thread but the US system from a cost/benefit perspective is dumb as hell.
As for Social Security, my main beef is how little of a return you get for how much you pay in. 12.4% (if self-employed; your employer just pays the 6.2% out of your salary) up to 130k a year (it's actually $132,900 for 2019) is absurd for what you get in return. 12.4% of 130k = $16,120/year.
So, ignore inflation to keep things simple and let's do that for 20 years.
$16,120 x 20 = $332,400
For 322k, I could buy in full a fucking property that generates more cash flow than any SS check AND have an asset in my name with no debt.
Corporate Welfare:
Completely against in the vast majority of cases. Farming, national security, a few other arenas are the exceptions.
When the 2008 crash went down for example, there should have been no bailouts. Bad behavior and people got rewarded and good people got punished (savers and future entrepreneurs). Total bullshit.
Bottom line: If you are in the middle/middle upper income bracket, you're getting fucked in the ass without the lube. All the pain, none of the benefit. Remember, tax fraud is illegal but tax avoidance should be your patriotic duty.
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01-04-2019, 03:16 AM
Quote: (01-04-2019 12:35 AM)The Black Knight Wrote:
It depends on a lot of things and what type of welfare we are talking about.
At the foundational level, all means tested welfare programs (medicaid, free/cheap housing/food stamps/etc) should have two basic rules:
1. Welfare goes to citizens only.
2. If you are on welfare, you are not permitted to breed until you are fiscally sustainable.
This protects limited resources and largely prevents whatever bad behaviors/traits/people from multiplying and becoming multi-generational problems for everyone.
In the US, there are many places that openly advertise that "undocumented immigrants" can access welfare benefits. This should amount to treason in my book. Why? You're using my money to enable and support foreign invaders.
As for controlling breeding, good luck forcing birth control and abortions on to the populace. But this is what needs to be done. Welfare leeches know that if they can just pump out one kid, they are a protected class for nearly two decades; they know how to hustle the system. Cheap/free housing, healthcare, food, money, etc. Pump out a few more kids? More money and longer protection; maybe even long enough to claim retirement benefits right after the last kid hits adulthood.
Right now, we incentivize deadbeats to have up to 40 years of taxpayer funded baby making all the while the hard working guy can't even contemplate having kids until maybe his 30's due to the financial burdens; especially if you want a woman to stay at home.
People easily forget that at some point in the recent past, you could live in a SAFE lower class neighborhood, support a family on one income, and your kids didn't have to worry about trash in their public school. Now, the lower income neighborhoods are hoods filled with illegal/ghetto trash. To do the single income family life and make sure the kid(s) have access to good schools/resources, you need A LOT of money. If you compromise, your kids may pay the price via shitty schooling, absent parents, or violence. Having kids/family, supporting them, and doing it right for the non-welfare seeking person requires enormous hard work, effort, and sacrifice. And there is no guarantee you will reach the minimal requirements in time (i.e your reproduction prime).
For the welfare seeking, just spread your legs in your teens, abandon your kids, and let everyone else clean up your mess for the next several decades.
Simply put, the game is rigged and everything is operating ass backwards. The people who work hard are being punished and the lazy are being rewarded immensely; including the privilege of being able to reproduce with security. Since we can't undo people having welfare babies, the next best alternative is to make them work for it. Make it so painful that they will want to get a real job. Obviously, have exceptions for the truly disabled and infirm but bring the pain to everyone else.
Switching gears to old people entitlements:
We are about to hit Peak Baby Boomer and Social Security/Medicare expenses are going to explode. Personally, I think old folks should fall on their swords for mismanaging things so bad and take a major hit in their entitlements. Fat chance that is gonna happen though.
For Medicare: the whole medical industry in the US needs to convert over to something like the Singaporean model along with higher costs for fat people and people who abuse their bodies repeatedly. That's a whole another thread but the US system from a cost/benefit perspective is dumb as hell.
As for Social Security, my main beef is how little of a return you get for how much you pay in. 12.4% (if self-employed; your employer just pays the 6.2% out of your salary) up to 130k a year (it's actually $132,900 for 2019) is absurd for what you get in return. 12.4% of 130k = $16,120/year.
So, ignore inflation to keep things simple and let's do that for 20 years.
$16,120 x 20 = $332,400
For 322k, I could buy in full a fucking property that generates more cash flow than any SS check AND have an asset in my name with no debt.
Corporate Welfare:
Completely against in the vast majority of cases. Farming, national security, a few other arenas are the exceptions.
When the 2008 crash went down for example, there should have been no bailouts. Bad behavior and people got rewarded and good people got punished (savers and future entrepreneurs). Total bullshit.
Bottom line: If you are in the middle/middle upper income bracket, you're getting fucked in the ass without the lube. All the pain, none of the benefit. Remember, tax fraud is illegal but tax avoidance should be your patriotic duty.
We can spend trillions on the 'war on terrorism', endlessly feeding the Military Industrial Complex and providing corporate welfare to the huge conglomerates and MNCs to rack up huge profits and avoid tax but the poor and middle earners continue to get shit upon.
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01-04-2019, 07:02 AM
How about we oppose all forms of parasitism?
I hope we get rid of corporate welfare, endless wars AND welfare for parasites.
People who can work but do not want to should not get a single dollar. The government should require abled citizens who are on welfare to do some kind of public service like collect garbage or clean the streets. If you do that, I bet many of them will look for a real job.
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01-04-2019, 08:01 AM
The system in the UK is a joke and, unfortunately for us, the whole world knows it.
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01-04-2019, 09:41 AM
Quote: (01-04-2019 03:16 AM)Batka Wrote:
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We can spend trillions on the 'war on terrorism', endlessly feeding the Military Industrial Complex and providing corporate welfare to the huge conglomerates and MNCs to rack up huge profits and avoid tax but the poor and middle earners continue to get shit upon.
I think everyone here would agree wholeheartedly on the corporate welfare.
My initial reaction is that the war on terrorism is different because it's the nation protecting from outside threats. (States are to police within per the 10th amendment, the nation is to guard against outside threats)
Upon further research, the war on terrorism can be argued constitutional because of the same welfare clause...
From article 1 section 8:
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The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
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So congratulations Batka, I have a new perspective thanks to your post. The founding fathers left open a couple doors there. Also note, that clause is different than the power to declare war.
That said, I would argue there's far more waste in the domestic redistribution of resources. I find it hard to believe redistributing resources to less productive members of society (including many illegal aliens in recent years) ever, even the most efficient government redistribution system (forgive my chuckle), builds a better nation.
Whereas spending on common Defence often times does build a better nation, even in times of waste, mis-management, and corruption.
It just seems we waste a lot more on welfare than defense.
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01-04-2019, 01:34 PM
Welfare for those that need it, yeah sure why not. Not everyone can have a productive life without problems and good circumstances.
I draw the line when able bodied people and single mothers abuse it to leech off the system and do nothing to produce anything except for generations of welfare kings and queens and increasing the crime rate.
The problem Western nations such as Germany, UK, and the USA have is an order of magnitude worse than anything else in human history when it comes to having a dependent class of people in a civilised society.
In the past you made do with what you had and knew your place. Welfare has made so many dependents that if it were to crash it would cause such a social and economic schism that the very internal security these nations take for granted will be up ended inside a matter of days.
I can only imagine how many US towns and cities will be turned into riot central where looting and crime is prevalent to the point only Martial Law could attempt to stop it.
The same goes for the UK and Germany. Too many people have made it too hard to reduce or change welfare.
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01-04-2019, 01:55 PM
Stefan Molyneux made a great point in a recent show.
Welfare to single moms has turned children from liabilities into assets.
Millions of years of social evolution turned upside down.
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01-04-2019, 11:37 PM
I think the government should just sell me stuff to bbq at half price instead of making me go to the bums with the ebt cards. Cut out the middleman.
So I voted yes.
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01-07-2019, 10:25 AM
I am against welfare on principle, as it is compulsory and indiscriminate charity - the opposite of what charity should be. Plus, it is designed not to help people get back on their feet, but make people dependent.
However, I understand that in an industrial society based on technological progress, it is impossible to not have some form of it, because the system is predicated on optimization and automation, which will invariably leave lots of people without any marketable skill and not enough time/ability to be retrained. Therefore you will always have an underclass that cannot adapt to the ever-changing job market. In addition to this, the current system is also based on salaried jobs and makes it very difficult to be self-sufficient, and needs enough people to consume the products that are produced - so effectively giving another incentive to subsidize the lower class into parasitism.
The lower class will, therefore, always vote for more welfare. It is a self-perpetuating system that will eventually lead to the 'universal basic income' due to automation, and this will in turn result in complete control of the government over these people's lives.
In short, we cannot oppose welfare without opposing the current economic organization of society. I used to be much more contemptuous of welfare bums, but I've learned to direct my hatred towards the right target.
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01-07-2019, 10:47 AM
My biggest criticism is this:
Public policy is simply, what is the most efficient way of structuring society at the most benefit to most people (in the West, without taking away individual rights).
Welfare or not, it's not a statement of who is more or less selfish or giving.
I'm tired of the idea that this group cares and that group doesn't. It's public policy and it's redistributing resources for the betterment of society. Because someone is pro-welfare or thinks it's a good thing doesn't make them any more caring or understanding.
Even the nation as a whole is not more or less moral or ethical by having or not having welfare.
Emotions have no place in public policy. Politics are for nerds. The TV ruined that of course, but politics are statistical.
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01-07-2019, 08:09 PM
I think universal healthcare is a great thing for society.
The system they have in England and Australia where anyone who is sick gets treatment cost free, funded by taxpayers is the pinnacle of a modern humane society me thinks.
There is something nice about being able to call an ambulance for a old, poor person dying in the gutter in Australia, instead of stepping over them and letting them get on with dying in Thailand.
Of course the system only works if it run efficiently, corruption is resisted and mass immigration is held back.
Which is why these systems are failing, and its deliberate act of vandalism, as private health care is a cash cow.
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01-07-2019, 11:00 PM
I knew a man who was getting disability for "anxiety" which is arguably the most bullshit thing since all of us have varying amounts of anxiety. This guy was functioning well enough to attend a college and even drive a car. Guys like him were draining money that could had gone to actual disabled people such as amputees (and funny thing is there are many amputees who work full time and contribute to society).
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01-09-2019, 02:55 AM
IMO you have to have assistance for the less fortunate
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01-18-2019, 10:24 AM
Welfare is a kind of bribery, of course, so the rich should pay for it, and not taxes or bonds. The rich already pay bribes to government officials, so why shouldn't they pay to the poor? That at least would make Klassenkampf alive again.
The way it is made now pits everyone against everyone, since non-welfare taxpayers feel like being robbed by welfare recipients.
Welfare has nothing inherently wrong in itself, and seems to be around already a long time. What about potlatch? What about annona, free grain given to poor citizens of Rome and Constantinople by the emperor?