Dvergar wrote:
A quick look at history disproves the 'charities will take care of everything' mindset, and this 'welfare is just pandering for votes' is equally ludicrous. You're suggesting that while everyone else would jump at the chance to help those less-fortunate, it's impossible for a politician to want to do the same, and instead they've decided to support welfare based solely on trying to 'buy' votes from the demographic least likely to vote. We're not all republicans, some politicians actually want to do good and not just fuck over the country for the almighty dollar.
Or maybe they can't see the forest for the trees.
They are too mired in business as usual to undertake original and unsolicited legislation aimed at really changing things for the better.
Politicians are human too, and that's the essence of the human condition. It is, in the final analysis, why the world sucks and the status quo nearly always wins.
