Obamacult wrote:Grenartia wrote:
I don't trust that graph. I mean, shit like that can be falsified.
Also, welfare DOES help individuals. There was a time when my mother and I would have literally starved to death if not for the food stamp program.
The regions and states that experienced the most mass starvation were command economies beset by rationing and shortages brought on by the problem of economic calculation associated with government inefficiency, corruption and waste.
Indeed, before the advent of capitalism on a grand scale in the Western world -- poverty and starvation were common place. They still are in areas in which capitalism is not practiced. See what a tiny injection of capitalism has done in India and China in which a generation ago, hundreds of millions of peasants were on the razor edge of starvation.
and the graph is accurate, hence you don't want to go there.
Yet again, with your allusions to the failures of 'command economies', you seem to be assuming that I am an authoritarian socialist. The system I advocate for is far from a command economy.