AthenaAwakened
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- Joined
- Sep 17, 2003
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- Location
- Right behind you so ... BOO!
- Basic Beliefs
- non-theist, anarcho-socialist
- Some people are poor because they're feckless and irresponsible.
- There is institutional poverty so that diligent responsible people are poor.
Both are true. One does not make the other untrue.
Most welfare recipients now work. We already produce goods and services in surplus. If all the feckless and irresponsible people suddenly went diligent and responsible, there'd likely be no less poverty but further downward pressure on wages.
Mr Ryan's maundering about whether such character change should be effected locally or federally is a classic piece of conservolibertarian obfuscation. Issue-framing 101.
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