[Spexxvet]

After many back-and-forth posts, here, I've reconsidered my position on the welfare/unemployment issue.

Unemployment insurance and welfare are a direct threat to my ability to maximize my income. If there were no UI or Welfare, those workers who lost their jobs would have to either get another job, likely outside my profession, or they would starve to death. Either of these solutions would reduce the supply of opticians, causing me to be in higher demand, and a scarcer resource, thereby increasing my cost (wages).

It may seem to be a callous, selfish perspective, but it's a dog-eat-dog economic environment out there, and it's time that I look out for myself.

I'd like to thank Merc, UG, and all you other conservative posters who've convinced me of my folly.




























Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go buy a handgun.