Huff Po: "America's Not Faring Well on Welfare" - in support of a Paul-ian position

What are your thoughts? Here is argument about the article.

I think what people call "the nanny state" is simply considered the norm in every other industrial country. People in Japan don't have to worry about deciding whether to pay their mortgage or get cancer treatment. I don't see people anywhere else in the world envying our approach. The author of that article thinks if we got rid of welfare and had everything based on private charity that would solve the problem. I think he's living in a dream world. There is no way people would make that up in charitable donation. If your mom couldn't get medicare for her cancer treatment, god help her trying to find the money by soliciting private donations. How often do people walk past those salvation army guys in front of the supermarket without even looking at them? Or hand a homeless guy a meal. I think the Libertarian way of doing things would basically turn this into a third world country where wealth would shoot to the top(even more than now), where they would pay hardly any taxes and middle/lower class people would be anemic. It would be like it is in these Latin countries where everything is controlled by a few wealthy families and then everybody else is living like our friend Steve barely able to go out to eat. Did you see that article I sent the other day about the top 400 families in America having more wealth than the bottom 50% of the population? All that concentrated money didn't come out of thin air. It was extracted from normal people whose wages haven't grown in decades while the wealthiest are bringing so much money you wouldn't think we were in the worse economy since the Great Depression. It makes me sick hearing these pundits on TV and radio defending the rich and saying we have too much social service and they wealthy are taxed too much. They already send people's jobs to China, and then have illegal aliens taking all these blue collar jobs in construction, agriculture, meat packing, hotels and all kinds of things, then they don't expect people's social needs to go up. The way I see it, illegal immigration/outsourcing is going to be paid for one way or another. The corporations may be saving money short term with cheap labor, but the pressure that puts on the American working class is going to cause their needs on unemployment, welfare and medicaid to rise. It's just basic math. So the rich don't want to pay people a living wage and then they don't want to pay for the social welfare either. I guess everyone except them and their cheap labor should just roll over and die.

He presented nothing I haven't heard already. It's basic Republican/Libertarian boilerplate. They believe the free market will fix social ills. The free market only exists for one reason: To maximize profit. When rust belt cities have their industry relocated to China in search of greater profit, of course the result is going to be more people on welfare, unemployment and Medicaid. Whatever we spend on this pales in comparison to what's spent on the Pentagon.

Very clear, very persuasive arguments always.

He is a huge asset to the Liberty movement (and common sense) on a big progressive site like HuffPo

and who plans to attend the Seattle C4L and new King Co RP 2012 meeting next Monday!

took them about 50 years to figure out that they were doing the wrong thing, and ran the country into the dirt before they noticed any of their own few crippled synapses firing a warning sign.
This is why you can't go along with "progressives". They don't know what the hell they are doing, and it's all emotional with no thinking, and they drag the country to hell with their "feelgood" garbage..