Quote Originally Posted by gugi View Post
Exactly, that seems to always be forgotten when the 'jobs' argument is brought up. It is the same argument for stimulating the economy, but that tends to be dismissed with the 'can not spend your way out of debt'.

It is definitely much cheaper to pay people welfare money than the high cost of skilled jobs making high-tech but unnecessary military equipment. In fact the standard economic argument would be that they should be paid nothing as to provide the greatest incentive for getting off their bottoms and putting their skills into production of something that is better for the society.
In fact these days the argument is made often but for a different socio-economic segment.
Don't get me started lol!! I have been too active on this thread as it is lol!! But yeah... Take all the passion out and the name calling, and welfare has its place!

I find in America, people would rather pay more police and create a police state than simply pay out more welfare and deture those who have nothing from steeling. In pure dollars - as proven elsewhere, it works.

But that's a bit advanced for this thread lol! The list of assumptions would take pages lol!