Quote:It's the broken egg situation, you can't just eliminate them now that we've instituted them. However there's an argument to be made families where far less likely to break up when it was almost mandatory of them to remain together for financial stability. 

 

It's a complicated issue but the State has replaced the Father as head of the house, that is really the core issue. It sounds radical, it sounds ridiculous, it even sounds paranoid but I really believe that the purpose of welfare was to create a permanent underclass and quotes from the creators like LBJ reaffirm that belief.

That's also assuming these families, prior to solcial welfare, were even healthy families to begin with. Though that is beside the point. 

 

I agree with the below poster that it was never intended to create a permanent underclass. There are plenty of other political views that do that more overtly than providing assistance for those less fortunate. Did it play a hand in it? Well it sure seems that way but I don't think it was done intentionally. 

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