04-16-2015, 11:22 AM
First, Just about everyone here probably has taken some sort of "welfare" - public tax backed goods &/or services... one of the most expensive most of us have had is public schooling...
This debate takes me to a debate back years ago, when I was in honors program at a mainland public college that paid for for our tuition (of course, we had to maintain honors status to qualify)
The debate was pretty much the same as here, limit or eliminate welfare to the 'needy'. I was a tad bit older than the rest of the students, worked full time, owned my own house & paid taxes. I mentioned in class that every one of us in this program WERE RECEIVING PUBLIC WELFARE, & most likely had been throughout all of our schooling.... my, did that dust up the indignation! here were these students, most all of whom had never actually paid into the tax fund that actually PAID for education, trying to justify how they had EARNED the honors tuition reimbursement, simply by doing what they should have seen as being required in college, getting good grades for doing their best!
So, I have come to realize that most all of us do accept some publicly funded benefits, some more than others. To judge another as lacking (or a lackey) only because they accept benefits puts most of us in that "Welfare Burden"
This debate takes me to a debate back years ago, when I was in honors program at a mainland public college that paid for for our tuition (of course, we had to maintain honors status to qualify)
The debate was pretty much the same as here, limit or eliminate welfare to the 'needy'. I was a tad bit older than the rest of the students, worked full time, owned my own house & paid taxes. I mentioned in class that every one of us in this program WERE RECEIVING PUBLIC WELFARE, & most likely had been throughout all of our schooling.... my, did that dust up the indignation! here were these students, most all of whom had never actually paid into the tax fund that actually PAID for education, trying to justify how they had EARNED the honors tuition reimbursement, simply by doing what they should have seen as being required in college, getting good grades for doing their best!
So, I have come to realize that most all of us do accept some publicly funded benefits, some more than others. To judge another as lacking (or a lackey) only because they accept benefits puts most of us in that "Welfare Burden"