but assuming you have lost the humane in human then I did offer an indisputable selfish reason for you to approve of for welfare states in an earlier post.
There is a big difference in providing and assisting people from a point of being humane, to providing and assisting people who are too lazy to do anything other than pick up their monthly welfare cheque.
People beg for money outside a shop, i will tell them to Ef-off, ask me to buy them a loaf of bread or some food, i will always do so, IF i have the money to spare.
Absolute thumb sucked opinion. If that was the case then none of the countries I linked to earlier would have shown such dramatic reductions in unemployment and poverty. Sorry dude, your opinion does not reflect reality.
"There is a time and place for everything", a very familiar proverb.
I am old enough to have had parents and family who lived through WW2 in both Denmark and Norway, and i can say with confidence, that they were a very different generation to todays. Those people survived to build. That generation built something new, and were determined to do so out of a
national pride, they were united as a nation, with a common goal. It was a period of rebuilding. It was the right time and the right place to do so, and it works for that very reason. That generation understood work for the benefits.
If one looks at the modern generation who grew up under that system, one finds a very different attitude towards welfare. There now exists a sense of entitlement by many to those benefits, that it is a right that they should get them rather than a privilege one works for.
Hence the huge influx of "refugees" to so many of those countries, so that within a short space of time regarding residence within those countries, they are now eligible and entitled to benefits.
Those new people didnt work for them, havent earned them, however are now entitled to them. All they are doing is riding on the backs of hard working people, who are paying for things they should be getting but are not because those not working are placing an extra strain and draining the system of those benefits.
You want a welfare state, or a better welfare system , good for you, you want it to work here in S.A. then follow the following:
Do away with corruption, nepotism, kick-backs, AA, BEE, and the myriad other facets that lead to squandering of resources and misappropriation of funds.
Ensure that the average man in the street has enough knowledge to make educated informed decisions about what and who to vote for.
Stop the continued practice of encouraging cultural differences that do not promote and encourage integration.
Give us a reason for national pride. I am not talking nationalism, but reasons to be proud of building for the nation and the future.
