[MD] Down the road of mediocrity

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Arlo Bensinger <ajb102 at psu.edu>:

> [Platt]
> If you are going be guaranteed health care, food on the table, nice 
> clothing and decent housing, what's the point?
> 
> [Arlo]
> If its so glamorous, why haven't your children gone on welfare?

Who said it was glamorous? What you propose -- welfare without work and a large
and growing dependent class, would be attractive to some. Does New Orleans and
Katrina ring a bell?

> [Platt]
> Because in my day we had none of those things. Nor did I have any 
> desire to become a parasite on the backs of hard workers.
> 
> [Arlo]
> Are you saying that if you were young today that you'd go on welfare? 
> You think its that attractive a life?

No. It's not attractive today. I hope it never will be. Even it was, I
wouldn't like being a parasite on the backs of hard workers. There was a time
in this country when going on welfare was shameful -- as it should be.



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