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At the risk of downvotes, why can't you? At some level, personal responsibility must come into play. There's a limit on how much you can protect people from the

At the risk of downvotes, why can't you? At some level, personal responsibility must come into play. There's a limit on how much you can protect people from themselves, though where that limit is can be a very political topic.

JonFish85 11y ago
People aren't responsible though, especially not people who are needing social services like welfare. People think short term, and some need to be protected from themselves.
- aninhumer 11y ago
  Poor people don't always make the best financial decisions, but I think the number of people who would waste all their money without buying any food is relatively small.
varelse 11y ago
Because then the right lobbyists contact either FoxNews or MSNBC (depending on who's apparently to blame) and ignite a two-minute hate about how horrible this is by trotting out a few tragedies and the sheeple get their outrage on, no?