I agree with korg here. When you think about the basic human rights on the founding of the American tradition (life, liberty, and property; later, pursuit of happiness, though I think early on, owning property made you pretty happy. :P), nothing says the government is going to give it to you. They merely have to provide an avenue in which it's achieveable. And need to protect you from other people's attempts to take it away.
But no one is taking anything away by not offering it for free. People tend not to appreciate things they don't have to pay for. If anything, the welfare question makes it sticky. Either you're supporting someone for raising a child or you're supporting someone to end it. Some would say it's legislating morality, but then the money is expected in either circumstance. And the more you fund it from somewhere else, the less the quality of service gets, because funding will invariably get cut the more people that push for it.
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Date: 2007-07-03 07:17 am (UTC)But no one is taking anything away by not offering it for free. People tend not to appreciate things they don't have to pay for. If anything, the welfare question makes it sticky. Either you're supporting someone for raising a child or you're supporting someone to end it. Some would say it's legislating morality, but then the money is expected in either circumstance. And the more you fund it from somewhere else, the less the quality of service gets, because funding will invariably get cut the more people that push for it.