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Originally Posted by SuzeQuze
Yes, this is what gets me, the populace voting against their own interests!
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Well, it is a little more complicated than that. I think people drive down the street and see all the people in the projects and think - lazy so and so's don't want to work, etc. Certainly some of the people there do not want to work and are content being there. I submit they are few though. I also submit the vast majority of the people there also do not have the public education to get a job that could get them out of there, and if they did, there are only so many of those jobs to go around as opposed to the plentiful lesser paying jobs like a maid, fast food worker, etc.
In the end, I think there is vast abuse and neglect in govt. funded programs to help the less fortunate and that is a very sad thing. However, it does not mean those programs should be done away with. It means they should be fixed. For example, I still maintain Affirmative Action should go from being based on race to being based on poverty. Two things are accomplished with that change. First, over time, the concept that black people and other minorities are getting an unfair leg up will fade - people do not mind giving the poor a better shot and sadly, the majority will still be black. Secondly, it is a fairer way to distribute money IMO.
Yet, mentioning that gives the R's and the D's fuel to raise money.