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I've been in human services long enough to see the problem isn't people living large on the dole, although you see drug dealers making a nice living while on welfare.
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Another reason to legalize drugs.
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Its more a dissolution of the human spirit. People choosing to survive not thrive. Its caused by both too few and too many resources being used. Things like inordinately expensive health care preventing folks from risking taking that entry level job.
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That's why I'd like to see workfare put in place. Assist people only as much as they need, and allow them to be productive members of society. That would give taxpayers a greater return on their investment.
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...or the well off hiding assets so the public pays for their nursing home care.
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Yep.
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whether a particular program has the outcome of making people more or less independent or capable.
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Freakonomics presented several examples of unintended results from policies.