Conservative welfare

11. April 2010 by admin.

In regard to welfare, traditional American ideas have generally differed in one of two ways: either the lazy and immoral poor must be able to leech the public treasury through a liberal system of welfare, or we must let the truly unfortunate fall through the cracks with a more libertarian approach.   Either way, the American public has been forced to deal with one of two evils.  And quite frankly, neither one is just.

But supposing we could devise a compromise between the two systems, in which the moral poor could receive a hand up without giving the immoral poor a hand-out, we could strike a deal which both Republicans and reasonable Democrats would appreciate.  The funny thing about this compromise is that, for Christian conservatives, the answer has been under our noses almost since the beginning of civilization. Read the rest of this entry »

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