Re: The dead hand of Obama lives on...
"The only way for this to happen is to _ACCEPT_ some socialism values - namely providing a safety net for the members of society which fall through into Down Below and provide them with assistance to be able to climb out of it. The key is "climb out". AKA: "I do not want to survive, I want to live!". This funnily enough is equal to a choice of free education or free education. The tax they will pay after they have climbed out will very happily pay for it. We should consider it an investment (ditto as someone pointed out - the free healthcare)."
Until the one job opening pops up and it's you versus him. That's the big problem with socialism: it doesn't stack well against reality where the game is zero sum and there's always fewer opportunities than people. All socialism does at that point is overload the demand, which as an economist would tell you makes things harder on everyone by depressing the return on labor. It may be brutal, but sometimes you just have to consider if the lives are worth saving now only to make them suffer later at the chokepoints.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
