To Extraordinary People who Disagree With Me on Welfare System.

[Peter1469]

That may be but that might be because of the caliber of the unemployed today. The US got quite a bit out of the Roosevelts WPA.

I think you missed my point.

Here is a graph of unemployment under FDR.


For most of his terms in office the unemployment rate was 10-25%. Above I said that today it is around the bottom 3% that are unemployable. That was likely true then. That means that during FDR's terms in office there were between 7 and 22% unemployed that were unemployable. I don't agree with the WPA, but it did put those people to work.

And I expect that had those bottom 3% gotten onto a WPA program, they failed at whatever they were asked to do or made life for everyone around them so miserable that their fellow workers were sick of them.

[CCitizen]

Why do you embrace slavery so readily?

I understand that most taxpayers will be angry at the very notion. But I believe that those who can not produce are still the responsibility of Society.

[CCitizen]

Norway is a small nation with a homogeneous population. As they absorb an alien culture from the Middle East and North Africa you will see crime rise, and the taste for a welfare state sour.

Sadly, in Modern World there is not enough resources to provide high standard of living for the whole World Population. Hopefully, by the end of the Century, technology will develop to the point where Universal Welfare will be possible.

[CCitizen]

There is only one supermax prison remaining in the United Statesfederal system, ADX Florence in Florence, Colorado.^[16] It houses numerous inmates who have a history of violent behavior in other prisons, with the goal of moving them from solitary confinement for up to 23 hours a day to a less restrictive prison within three years. However, it is best known for housing several inmates who have been deemed either too dangerous, too high-profile or too great a national security risk for even a maximum-security prison

Each state has Supermax prisons and other solitary confinement units. Overall, about 60,000 people are locked up in these units. In 2010, that number was twice as high. They spend years in isolation. That is a very long and severe torture.

[MisterVeritis]

Why do you embrace slavery so readily?

I understand that most taxpayers will be angry at the very notion. But I believe that those who can not produce are still the responsibility of Society.

We fought a war to free the slaves. Yet here you are asking for a return to slavery.