01-22-2004, 09:46 PM
I personally dont see what the conterversy over welfare is. If you ask me the idea of welfare came from Robin Hood and yet people dont dislike him and yet when the government does it, its horrible. Granted the gov't in robin hood was quite tyranical, but all governments could be doing more to help out the poor. I dont know if anyone has thought of this, but have you noticed that a lot of crime comes from poor neighbourhoods? Like is this true? or is it just a stereotype? Sounds like its true but i really dont know. Lawrence Kohlberg, who is a famous psycholigist says that a child under the age of 7 will absorb everything (moral wise) that others do around them. So in short a child sees breaking the law they will most likely do it. It takes a very open minded child to change that, and most adults struggle with that.
People will always say that they can get a job and help themselves. I expect several of these arguments in a later posting. My mom and my dad, two hard working parents, intelligent and are good at their jobs. They got their lay off notice in the same week. My dad went to work on his last day and was lucky enough to find another job in the same organization. My dad did that twice. He was lucky enough that there were vacancies and knew people who helped him fill those vacancies. But what happens when a company makes a round of lay offs? it happens all the time. There is no vacancies for people no matter how hard they work. We got lucky but many people dont. As a poor person would you steal from the rich to survive? Would you take it if they were giveing it? and yet you want to take it away from the people who truly need it.
People will always say that they can get a job and help themselves. I expect several of these arguments in a later posting. My mom and my dad, two hard working parents, intelligent and are good at their jobs. They got their lay off notice in the same week. My dad went to work on his last day and was lucky enough to find another job in the same organization. My dad did that twice. He was lucky enough that there were vacancies and knew people who helped him fill those vacancies. But what happens when a company makes a round of lay offs? it happens all the time. There is no vacancies for people no matter how hard they work. We got lucky but many people dont. As a poor person would you steal from the rich to survive? Would you take it if they were giveing it? and yet you want to take it away from the people who truly need it.