Dems, be honest: is the most important role of government to facilitate transfer payments?

[Wj]

Is that really what makes a nation great? Do you want little children growing up thinking how they can work really hard one day so their neighbor doesn't have to?

[Rev. Hal Luya]

LOL, where do you poor village idiots get this stuff? If republicans do not like social programs then why do they create the conditions that causes them?

[ashley]

Most decent parents teach kids how to share with the less fortunate.

[Stuart]

"who benefits from the safety net?" center for budget and policy priorities

[Felonious Monkey]

I have no problem with a nation helping its neediest citizens. You lack a BS detector.

[Sarah]

I prefer facts to fake straw man republican rants.

Democrats support temporary aid to those in legitimate need and aid to our veterans, our seniors, and the disabled who are unable to work.

We have never supported republican straw man rants that continually make false claims. Instead, we passed welfare reform into law under Clinton, requiring full time work for temporary aid.

While republicans all rant about knowing someone who is cheating welfare, democrats wonder why republicans are contributing to welfare fraud and not reporting those people for felony welfare fraud. They are your friends and neighbors and you should take personal responsibility and report them already.

[480]

"You sometimes hear it said--and I think this comes mostly from the lunatic fringe among the reactionaries--that the Government promises to make it possible for people to live without working... They say our Government programs would make us a nation of deadbeats and loafers. Of course, that is just as absurd as it can be."
-- Harry Truman; from Address in Butte, Montana (May 12, 1950)

[Matt D]

Your argument is thirty years old. No one wants a bloated welfare system, dems included. Don't confuse liberals with democrats,.

[borndoge]

The role of government is to protect people from foreign enemies and domestic enemies that would use their money to exploit everyone else. I know you probably think the free market won't have exploitation if it's "truly free" but you would be very mistaken.

[Edgar]

1) According to...The One...you are correct, good sir.

2) Sadly, are "liberal" frenz get enraged at the very notion of our nation being great. Weird crowd, those "liberals", huh?

3) Well, what with "liberals" thinking De Nial is a river in Egypt, I doubt you'll ever get an honest answer out of them to that question. How they roll.

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Sarah is conveniently 'forgetting' that welfare was cut off at the knees during the Clinton Adminstration because Republicans had him by the short hairs. Bill, having a brain (unlike the current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue) knew when to compromise and move on. Can you imagine...The One...doing such a thing!?! Bwaaahhhhh-haaaaa-haaaaa!!!

The child is sly, but she's also transparent in a way that...The One...is congenitally incapable of ever being. At least that's something in Sarah's favor, huh?