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Episode 136 – Free To Choose 1980 – From Cradle to Grave – Discussion (Podcast)

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The Welfare System Is Not Corrupting Society

In the united states, we have tried to avoid some of the welfare trap. It was referred by denying eligibility to people who are able bodied and not aged. We have therefore tried to close the welfare door to a good number of categories within the poor population. But it is not common to any and all welfare programmes that one might think of. I see the welfare system not corrupting, but in fact, taking the remains and attempting to help people live in dignity.

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Traditionally,
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in the united states, we have tried to avoid some of the welfare trap, it
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was referred by
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denying eligibility to people who are able bodied and not aged and so on. And we have therefore tried to close the welfare door to a good number of categories within the poor population. The second point that was emphasized, and i think needs to be put in some perspective, is that some, but not all, of what we might call welfare programs broadly, have this a very strong tech back of benefits as you earn some more money. And that, i guess, is what i would like to single out as the principal problem identified in the film. But it is not common to any and all welfare programmes that one might think of. When
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the family fails, when the private sector fails to create jobs at a fast enough rate, you find that people are unemployed and drift into needing help in order to exist. And the welfare system was created in the thirties to do exactly that. When the private sector essentially failed, we have the development of a welfare system. It is not corrupting society. It is taking what society institutions have left behind, the family breaking up, the economy not ex ding fast enough, the health system failing, the educational system not doing its job. We have untrained, unskilled people looking for jobs in a highly technical society, or jobs that pay so low that people cannot, in fact, live in a decent level of humanity. I see the welfare system not corrupting, but in fact, taking the remains and attempting to help people live in dignity.

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