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Cherie Kail
Posts:41

04/10/2008 11:05 PM	Alert
How do we deal with welfare? How do we make people take accountability? How do we decide what issues to leave to the government to be accountable for? How and when do we know if there is too much/too little accountability in each respective division of it?

Tyler Boyer
Posts:7

04/21/2008 12:19 PM	Alert
I don't know if we would want to put it under here or Free Market but I suggest we need to talk about businesses that make poor decisions. It is not the government’s job to bail out companies who make poor choices and go under. (E.g. Bear Stearns, airlines)

Paul Ivy
Posts:4

04/22/2008 2:14 PM	Alert
We don't make them accountable we just slowly remove the crutch.

Justin Brown
Posts:22

04/22/2008 4:14 PM	Alert
The good news is the current entitlement system is poised to break down over the next 30 years. Social Security and Medicare alone accout for 20% of the Federal budget; in the next 30 years that number will increase to 30% of the Federal budget. That doesn't factor in interest on the debt we are accrueing to keep them solvent right now. I think the first step is to end future payment and benefits from Social Security for anyone under 20 and end payments to those of retirement age who already get more than say $150,000.00 a year (or whatever number it would take to make up for the lost revenue from the 20 year olds) from other retirement accounts. That way only poorest and middle class Americans get the benefit until it goes away. That of course means that I could pay into the account for the rest of my life and never see any benefits from it but I'm willing to make that sacrafice if it means my kids don't have to pay in. Finally, I thinks the states should each mandate minimum yearly retirement savings so that none will become a ward of the state later in life due to irresponsible their own irresponsible behavior. Medicare is even easier. Each state should create a high-risk pool for anyone who can't get insurance anywhere else. There should be a separate state plan for kids under 18 whose parents can't afford it (or students under 22) to increase those kids chances of becoming productive adults and contributing back to the system. Everyone else is on their own, as it should be. As for welfare: restrictions, restrictions, restrictions. There should be tougher age restrictions, income restrictions, maximum time recieving aid, maximum number of kids used to calculate benefits, decreased benefits for single parents (seems counter-intuitive but trust me), and no benefits for those who have committed any felonies or major misdemenors (drug posession, shoplifting, dwi, etc). If we put enough caviets on recieving benefits eventually only those who both need and deserve help will get it.

Justin Brown
Posts:22

04/22/2008 4:34 PM	Alert
The eventual goal should be to eventually have the Federal government out of the wealth redistribution business altoghter. That way there is room for choice again. If blue-state liberals want to run wealth redistribution scams in their states they should be able to. And anyone with wealth who does not want to participate could then move to a red state where they would not have to worry about siezure of their property.

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