|
|
entry index
Rewarding welfare and dependency - Updated"JOBLESS COUPLE WITH 12 CHILDREN ARE
GIVEN A £500,000 HOME"
Here's one I want to get out of my stack just
because.
I am not sure what to say except if you are going to give away a "free lunch," you can always expect a long line, even as some of those waiting want seconds and thirds. Make "charity" a function of government and soon enough the benefits are a "right." The real question here is not if the family gamed the system, but if the system supports the welfare game. Update - I got some criticism for linking to this one. Let me see if I can't make it more clear. We can agree that this particular family is "milking" the system. The estimate is that they receive about £44,000 per year in benefits. At what point aren't they "milking" the system? Forty-three thousand? Twenty-one thousand? Ten thousand? Somewhere in there is a magic number that defines what benefits it is okay to take. But that is only the first of the magic numbers. There is also a number that defines when someone has to give money to support others. Is that number more than ten thousand? Twenty-one thousand? Forty-three thousand? At what point does it become okay for government to take money from one person, convert it at a loss to benefits, and give it to someone else? 
Posted: Sun - July 29, 2007 at 07:07 AM
|
 Pagan Vigil
Pagan philosopher, libertarian, and part-time trouble maker, NeoWayland watches for threats to individual freedom or personal responsiblity. There's more to life than just black and white, using only extremes just increases the problems.  My Thinking Blogger Nominees
Recent
Comments Search
Categories
Guest
Articles Interested in Pagan•Vigil hosting your articles? I'm always looking for tantalizing content that makes people think. Look here for details. E Pleb Neesta AdSense
Pagan Vigil assumes no responsibility for the advertisement content provided by Google, which is neither selected nor endorsed by NeoWayland.
NeoLinks
The News Right Now Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run Sunni Maravillosa and the Conspirators
Hammer of Truth Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of... Lady Liberty's Constitution Clearing House Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
no authority Center for a Stateless Society
Tammy Bruce.com Latino Issues: A Conservative Blog
The Nation
RealClimate
Papers, Please!
Letter from Hardscrabble Creek
You Are Not Alone A Big Idea from Eject! Eject! Eject! Fully Informed Jury Association World's Smallest Political Quiz Animated Introduction to the Philosophy of Liberty Institute for Liberty and Democracy
World of Ends 60 Second Refutation of Socialism, While Sitting at the Beach from Coyote Blog
World Religions - Religious Forums Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance
Who links to me? NeoBlogs
Books
Listmania - Liberty Basics 
Legal
All Guest Articles are © copyright by their respective authors for the date given and subject to the specific restrictions and permissions as stated in that article entry. Guest Article restrictions and permissions are specific to each article and may not be applied to another Guest Article.
Views and opinions expressed in Guest Articles do not necessarily reflect those of NeoWayland. Content from other sources is quoted under the fair use laws of the United States with clear reference to the source material. Unless otherwise noted, all other content at :
www.paganvigil.com Additional Redirect/Frame pages may be found at these web addresses:
members.aol.com/ If your web browser does not show one of these addresses, then this page being used without permission of the author. The views expressed by NeoWayland are his own and do not represent any other enity. NeoWayland freely accepts individual and sole responsibility for his words and actions.
XML/RSS Feeds
Statistics
|
