[quote=The Nexerus]
The difference being that while spending on the military sustains and advances it, spending on welfare adversely affects those who receive it, in the long run.
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The reason for this is because welfare gets into your blood and it makes you think weird things. I come from poverty I know welfare. It's a chaotic system that makes no sense. Its original intent has been lost. We need to scrap it and start over and do something more efficient which we can do in the modern era with technology that we couldn't do back in the Roosevelt era.