&quot;No. I have read about welfare reducing poverty. I&#x27;m sure you have, too.&quot;<p>Only in the short-term.  In the long-term, it creates generations of people completely dependent on the government, never really getting the chance to get themselves out of poverty.<p>All of my extended family are like this.  They don&#x27;t work because the government gives them enough to live.<p>&quot;No. I have read about public schools outperforming private charter schools.&quot;<p>Where is the proof of this?  In my area, the public schools are terrible.  It sickens me that I have to pay taxes to support them when they just continue to spiral downward. It&#x27;s also impossible to get rid of bad teachers, because whenever some sort of solution is suggested (for measuring effectiveness), the unions come back and say it isn&#x27;t possible.<p>&quot;The question isn&#x27;t whether or not liberal policies solve problems far more effectively than Republican policies. The question is how quickly you will accept that truth&quot;<p>Most liberal solutions that I&#x27;ve seen leave out human nature and a history of complete failure and re-dress it as something &#x27;new&#x27;.