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boxy
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by boxy » Wed Feb 02, 2011 10:55 pm
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Are there still people who think that welfare is akin to stealing?
A welfare saftey net is a sign of a compasionate society, regardless of abuse by selfishness (which should be weeded out).
Does it also help to keep a labour surplus in reserve for economic upturn?
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Outlaw Yogi
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by Outlaw Yogi » Wed Feb 02, 2011 11:04 pm
Welfare reduces crime and corruption ... and so improves the quality of life for most.
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boxy
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by boxy » Wed Feb 02, 2011 11:14 pm
Paying people not to rob me has never appealed
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by Ned Kelly » Wed Feb 02, 2011 11:54 pm
boxy wrote:Paying people not to rob me has never appealed
So, you'd rather they shoot you and then rob you.
Uhuh.
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by IQS.RLOW » Thu Feb 03, 2011 12:28 am
Why am I not surprised that you are a fan of extortion
Quote by Aussie: I was a long term dead beat, wife abusing, drunk, black Muslim, on the dole for decades prison escapee having been convicted of paedophilia
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by Outlaw Yogi » Thu Feb 03, 2011 12:33 am
boxy wrote:Paying people not to rob me has never appealed
So that'd mean government is the mutha of all stand over merchants ... right?
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by boxy » Sun Feb 06, 2011 12:27 pm
Well, I'd like to think they did it on compasionate grounds, rather than to avoid the law and order costs of policing hungry mobs
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by Outlaw Yogi » Sun Feb 06, 2011 12:54 pm
Apparently in ancient Rome many landholders were unable to repay debts to priest bankers in gold talons as agreed due to a shortage of gold talons in circulation, and with a 33 & 1/3rd% per annum interest rate repaying debt to the temple banks became an impossible task.
The dispossesed land holders loitered in the city centre and became known as 'the Mob'
The senate was concerned the Mob would rob merchants and negatively impact comerce, so invented the dole.
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by freediver » Sun Feb 06, 2011 1:36 pm
I'm all for helping out those in genuine need, but what we have in Australia is middle class welfare and tax churn.
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by boxy » Sun Feb 06, 2011 8:48 pm
Middle class welfare?
Would we be better off with tax cuts, and no "pork barelling" of the middle class?
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