WinterBorn
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- Nov 18, 2011
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A solution for simple poverty on an at-will basis?You have no economic clue or economic Cause, doing it that way.Capitalism has a natural rate of unemployment. Solving for that Institutional problem is a Government function and a provision of the general welfare.The government should not have to provide you services which you are capable of providing yourself.
Unemployment compensation is meant to be a temporary assist until you find a new job. That is it. It is not, and never was, intended to be full time support for someone unwilling to help themselves.
Unemployment compensation is, in most states, only 26 weeks in duration. As I have said over and over, it is meant to be a temporary bridge between jobs.
What you want is money sent to you, at tax payer expense, just because you do not have a job and refuse to get one. That is what welfare is for. The means testing you keep talking about is simply a way of determining whether you need it for your survival. You obviously do not.
You want to change the entire system, for your benefit, so that you do not have to get a job and work for a living. Unemployment compensation was never meant to provide you with a way of avoiding work and still having money for things beyond subsistence. You want tax payers to pay for you to have things you do not need.
One of the key signs of maturity is differentiating between a want and a need. You don't get to suckle at the public teat for your wants.
That is solved by the welfare programs. They provide an income, food stamps and health insurance for those who need it.
The means tests weed out those who do not need it.
Capitalism has a natural and institution, rate of unemployment. Correcting for that simple problem can solve simple poverty. We should have no homeless on the street.
There is already a solution in the form of welfare programs. However, that will not solve the homeless problem. Not having a physical address means they cannot have their checks and other benefits sent to them. Most do not have any ID, which is required to get any sort of gov't assistance. And they don't have bank accounts they can put their checks into, which would mean they would have their entire month's assistance on their person on the streets.
And most homeless people, living on the streets, have some sort of history of mental problems or substance abuse. Handing them money without addressing those problems would do more harm than good.
All you do is tell stories.
But you are not living in poverty. You have a place to live, food on the table, and the lights are on. You are not fighting for poor people. If you were you would not be wanting to take resources that could be used to serve them.