| Citizen Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Behind the Zion Curtain Posts: 18 Level up: 65%, 53 Points needed | | Re: Big Government or Small Government? Quote: |
Originally Posted by RevrseTheCurse04 Do we need reform with programs like welfare and other government programs? | I think we certainly do, the programs are outdated, we must reform them. However part of the problem is the constant cycle of reduction in spending and tax cuts. It's the consistent rape of the system that continues to weaken it.
Welfare has a dramatic impact on peoples lives when properly used, people depend on Social Security to live in their old age. It's important to protect those people. It's important that we are responsible in the execution and funding of these social programs. Its not about big government, its about a small government that works for the people and not the elite. \"The American Dream is the North Star of the Democratic Party\" --Sen. Ted Kennedy
No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.
--Pres. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
We must build a new world, a far better world - one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.
--Pres. Harry S. Truman |