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Subject:	Is it ~OK~ for government to subsidise profit making industry?
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Thu, 21 Jun 2001 08:38:32 GMT
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Occasionally, I am in favour of government intervention in the employment market. Despite that, when I read the story below, I thought this was the one area where companies and individuals did not need handouts / subsidies. Can it really be ~OK~ for government to subsidise profit making industry(?) in this way? The Story: California tells jobless 'Go east' and pays for the journey for relocation In the Depression years of the 30s, tens of thousands of unemployed left the Dust Bowl of America in Oklahoma and its neighbouring states and headed west for California in search of work, their plight captured by John Steinbeck in The Grapes of Wrath and by the haunting photographs of Dorothea Lange. But now the impoverished unemployed in California are heading east - encouraged by a controversial scheme that gives people on welfare a one-way ticket to leave their homes and look for jobs elsewhere. The rest is here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4206891,00.html

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		Re: Is it ~OK~ for government to subsidise profit making industry?
(...) Why is that? (...) If they have to rob from the rich (or more accurately, middle class) to give to the poor, at least this way they're doing it in a way that supplies the poor a way to see to themselves. What could you possibly object to? (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: Is it ~OK~ for government to subsidise profit making industry?
(...) It's probably cheaper to move the welfare recipient to another location with an open job market than try to find them a job in an area with a tight job market, and supporting them the whole time. I don't necessarily agree with it, but it does (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: Is it ~OK~ for government to subsidise profit making industry?
If it both saves money in the long run and gets people viable work, I don't see the problem (except of course that any government program is open to abuse or expansion beyond all reason). Reduces my taxes, too. This is a much better use of public (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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