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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Critics say giving people free money that isn't conditionally attached to work violates the ideal of earning your living.

Some UBI advocates, on the other hand, say the system provides an even stronger American luxury: freedom.

They say it unshackles people from having to make compromises in how they live just so they can survive.

What kind of Freedom is it where your life is dependent on the government?

Are you really unshackled when the government provides your life sustenance?

If you are not providing for your own living through your own efforts and talents if every bite of food that passes your lips is provided to you from the confiscated labor of another man are you a slave or a slaver?

14 posted on 10/13/2016 11:55:49 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Pontiac; 2ndDivisionVet
Pontiac -- you bring out another negative about UBI -- this is not about freedom, this is about giving the masses their "bread and circuses" to keep them quiet.

The people then become mindless zombies of the state

31 posted on 10/14/2016 1:58:36 AM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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