Interesting ... now if only Walker would call for the end of welfare. That would be the mark of a real conservative. I cannot for the life of me understand why Republicans don’t make the argument against welfare in its totality.
Yep. Walker's heart is sort of in the right place, but to me, it just sounded like more cowbell.
I'd MUCH rather see Walker pushing for making it so welfare recipients forfeit the right to vote as long as they're dependent on welfare -- overt government charity (as opposed to Social Security, which supposedly is drawing from your money that it invested for you) -- that folks on food stamps or rent payment assistance, etc., receive it on the condition that they are prohibited from voting. Once they can support themselves independent of government charity, their voting rights are restored. THAT would be a whole lot better than drug testing. So if they're doing drugs, what, they're going to starve on the streets because of mean old Republicans?
Charity is a moral duty requiring sacrifice, mercy, and compassion on the part of the giver, and gratitude and moral indebtedness on the part of the receiver. Government has used its power of authority to usurp that duty from individuals and absorbing it into the state. It has turned a moral action, charity, into an AMORAL one, and evil results. When the state controls it, FORCE makes slaves of the givers, and entitled dependents of the receivers.