global welfare heaven
Cassidy, 22, is a university student receiving all the government financial help she can get her hands on. She's in welfare heaven and believes welfare is not only a social good but also that there should be more of it!
"Western capitalist countries are unlikely to abolish welfare because, like the ancient slave system before it, welfare is the means by which economies thrive and the wealthy get wealthier," says Cassidy. "It may seem crazy that giving away money is good for the economy but compared with the cost of providing jobs and opportunities for everybody it is an incredibly cheap way to manage the masses. Right?"
"Welfare is an industry providing jobs for thousands of people," says Cassidy. "For every person on welfare, there is at least one person in some sort of government employment managing him or her. The ancient slave masters cracking the whip - or the workhouse wardens withholding the soup - are now the case managers, counselors, psychologists, employment agents, housing agents, immigration agents, lawyers, private detectives, etc that owe their comfortable livelihoods to the welfare system."
"Abolish welfare and there will be twice as many people out of work and starving," laughs Cassidy. "The government isn't stupid - it knows what it's doing."
"Welfare payments are so paltry, deliberately so, that every penny given gets put back into the local economy immediately," says Cassidy. "Capitalism is fired by consumerism, and the more people consuming local goods and services the healthier the economy."
"It is no coincidence that there are more supermarkets and super-malls in welfare towns than in up-market areas," says Cassidy. "The grocery giants and the cheap chain stores practically live off welfare. The poor, disabled, aged and the unemployed have nowhere else to go but the malls - and they have nothing else they can spend their welfare checks on than the cheap food, clothes and home-wares they find at their local mall."
"Abolish welfare and whole towns built around malls will become ghost towns, thousands of mall workers will lose their jobs and the grocery and chain store giants will go out of business," laughs Cassidy, "and a whole lot of government employees would be out of work, too."
"Welfare, in cahoots with religion, is a powerful way to control the masses and prevent them from revolting," says Cassidy. "It is far cheaper to give the poor, disabled, aged and the unemployed a pittance to cover their basic expenses than to employ a police force or an army big enough to keep them from ransacking the homes of the rich or otherwise disturbing the peace."
"Abolish welfare and the heads of the rich will roll, just like they did in the French Revolution!"
"Finally, welfare is not only a clever economic strategy but it's also a dastardly clever social strategy," says Cassidy. "No civilization, ancient or modern, has ever provided 100% employment and opportunity for everyone - the young, the old, the sick, the feeble-minded and the disabled - nor has there ever been an attempt to achieve what most economists would consider such an impossible aim. Even the communist countries maintained a social barrier between the upper and the lower classes."
"There are two ugly facts relevant to all economies from ancient to modern times, says Cassidy. "One, is that jobs are finite - more people equates to less paying jobs and where there is no slavery there is unemployment or underemployment - and two, is that without an underclass there would be no upper class."
"Abolish welfare and there would be no underclass for the middle and upper classes to look down upon, boss around, abuse and bully and no easy scapegoats to blame for society's ills!"
"Frankly, I intend to stay at university for as long as I can - doing one course after another - and taking as much welfare as I can," says Cassidy. "Sure, I won't get rich and I'll have to put up with all the welfare-bashers cursing me for being a sponge - and eventually, I suppose, I'll have to join the slaving masses - but right now I'm basking in welfare heaven and I know that the government not only loves people like me but needs them, too."
"Western capitalist countries are unlikely to abolish welfare because, like the ancient slave system before it, welfare is the means by which economies thrive and the wealthy get wealthier," says Cassidy. "It may seem crazy that giving away money is good for the economy but compared with the cost of providing jobs and opportunities for everybody it is an incredibly cheap way to manage the masses. Right?"
"Welfare is an industry providing jobs for thousands of people," says Cassidy. "For every person on welfare, there is at least one person in some sort of government employment managing him or her. The ancient slave masters cracking the whip - or the workhouse wardens withholding the soup - are now the case managers, counselors, psychologists, employment agents, housing agents, immigration agents, lawyers, private detectives, etc that owe their comfortable livelihoods to the welfare system."
"Abolish welfare and there will be twice as many people out of work and starving," laughs Cassidy. "The government isn't stupid - it knows what it's doing."
"Welfare payments are so paltry, deliberately so, that every penny given gets put back into the local economy immediately," says Cassidy. "Capitalism is fired by consumerism, and the more people consuming local goods and services the healthier the economy."
"It is no coincidence that there are more supermarkets and super-malls in welfare towns than in up-market areas," says Cassidy. "The grocery giants and the cheap chain stores practically live off welfare. The poor, disabled, aged and the unemployed have nowhere else to go but the malls - and they have nothing else they can spend their welfare checks on than the cheap food, clothes and home-wares they find at their local mall."
"Abolish welfare and whole towns built around malls will become ghost towns, thousands of mall workers will lose their jobs and the grocery and chain store giants will go out of business," laughs Cassidy, "and a whole lot of government employees would be out of work, too."
"Welfare, in cahoots with religion, is a powerful way to control the masses and prevent them from revolting," says Cassidy. "It is far cheaper to give the poor, disabled, aged and the unemployed a pittance to cover their basic expenses than to employ a police force or an army big enough to keep them from ransacking the homes of the rich or otherwise disturbing the peace."
"Abolish welfare and the heads of the rich will roll, just like they did in the French Revolution!"
"Finally, welfare is not only a clever economic strategy but it's also a dastardly clever social strategy," says Cassidy. "No civilization, ancient or modern, has ever provided 100% employment and opportunity for everyone - the young, the old, the sick, the feeble-minded and the disabled - nor has there ever been an attempt to achieve what most economists would consider such an impossible aim. Even the communist countries maintained a social barrier between the upper and the lower classes."
"There are two ugly facts relevant to all economies from ancient to modern times, says Cassidy. "One, is that jobs are finite - more people equates to less paying jobs and where there is no slavery there is unemployment or underemployment - and two, is that without an underclass there would be no upper class."
"Abolish welfare and there would be no underclass for the middle and upper classes to look down upon, boss around, abuse and bully and no easy scapegoats to blame for society's ills!"
"Frankly, I intend to stay at university for as long as I can - doing one course after another - and taking as much welfare as I can," says Cassidy. "Sure, I won't get rich and I'll have to put up with all the welfare-bashers cursing me for being a sponge - and eventually, I suppose, I'll have to join the slaving masses - but right now I'm basking in welfare heaven and I know that the government not only loves people like me but needs them, too."
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