I have never stated we need to be taking care of people who are lazy. There are a number of people who are doing the right things every day that are not making enough wealth to go beyond poverty
thats it, nothing else
The 'right thing' is what is subjective here though. You do the 'right thing' when you do what is necessary to make your labor marketable at a price that you can live on. Those who didn't do that didn't exactly do the 'right thing' did they? The person who majors in art history on Mom & Dad's dime and doesn't bother to acquire any marketable skills of any kind better have an in with a college, university, or major gallery that needs an 'expert' because he or she is otherwise going to be very very limited in what s/he can earn out there. When you make choices that severely limit what you are qualified to do, that is your problem. Or should be.
The government should not make it my problem.
If we go thru 600 billion in wealth in 2010 to pay for welfare, they made it our problrm
Then you cut them off of welfare. You force their hand. Neccessity is the mother of invention when people are required to do more to get by they will. You're pissed off about government giving them your money? How would you feel, if you were a business owner, if government passed the buck on to you and said you have to give these people your money.
I get wanting to reduce health care roles and not wanting money taken out of your pocket to pay for those people. But there is no moral basis or logical basis for solving that problem be creating a law that says it's an employer's responsibility to pay people enough to live on. That is not how you help people. It certainly not a conservative's solutin. You asked how we would solve that problem and I told you. You help people help themselves. If they don't want to better themselves, you cut them off. Simple as that.
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