Open Question: Is it the Conservative Position to abandon all entitlement programs such as Medicare?
I have heard here that entitlement programs such as Medicare, Social Security, Aid to Families with Dependent Children, Unemployment and Veterans Benefits, WIC and Food Stamps are socialism and should be abandoned.
Okay, if Conservatives get their way, and they hope to within the next few years, given the unemployment situation how do Conservatives propose to deal with the elderly now no longer able to afford their health care and sustenance? What do they propose to do about maimed veterans in need of therapy? How do they deal with children (especially of unemployed parents) that relied on government programs for food and medical care? What do they plan to do with all those people?
More importantly when some of these people use their “right to bear” arms to feed their families or force treatment for loved ones that they no longer receive or afford. What is their plan for that? Can they accept that they would be moving money from social programs only to spend it for policing, and expanded criminal justice programs maybe spending more money that was saved? If so what is the Conservative answer to that?
When they get their way criminalizing abortion who will pay for those unwanted children? Who will feed them? Who will care for them? Who will be responsible for them if the parents abandon them under the Conservative Plan? Since child abandonment is a crime in all fifty states of this country while those irresponsible parents are doing time who will be responsible for these children? If the government has no real place in Social Services then foster care will be privatized and government subsidies that exist in foster care (especially for treatment of the medical and psychological problems that are common with these children) would be eliminated which realistically would greatly reduce the pool of available foster and adoptive parents. What exactly would Conservatives do to solve those problems?
Piven and Cloward wrote that the social programs that currently exist were ultimately about maintaining public safety and order. So if you take them away because “we can no longer afford them as taxpayers” can we afford more police, prisons, and support staff to process it all?
I am looking for the application of the Conservative position to these problems and not invective about Liberal positions in the matter unless you want to present that as evidence that there is no Conservative Plan. Just be honest and admit that as a Conservative you don’t have a plan but I don’t care for Liberal or Moderate Alternatives.