DBA
Diamond Member
- May 10, 2015
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Actually it is the crap GOP $7 an hour jobs and the crap ridiculous expense of college and training for good jobs that are going begging. All to save degree idiot GOP Rich from paying their fair share. End of story. Blaming victims of your crap policy is ridiculous. 35 years now. God will not be amused at your attitude towards the unfortunate.let us have as our goal that there will be no government program which makes it more profitable to go on welfare than to go to work.
Well I don't think that it is more profitable to go on welfare than it is to go work.
That fact is, that if people don't have to work.... they don't. It's that simple. Yes, you can live better if you are working. But if you don't HAVE TO.... then people don't.
So here in Columbus Ohio, we had a local news channel send out a reporter, in the mid-90s, when we had welfare reform. Now this particular channel wasn't super political, but it appeared the reporter was.
She was interviewing this lady, who was being kicked off welfare, with her kids. The reporter was asking her how she was going to make it with this "oh how are you going to survive without welfare?"
This was hilarious, because the lady replied "Oh we will be much better off. I'll have more money, and be able to have a better life for my kids".
You could actually hear the reporter stutter after that.... "um er, well... uh then why didn't you do this before?"
And the lady's response, I'll never forget this until I die. "I didn't have to".
From that time, to today, I've seen this play out dozens of times in my life, with the people I've been around.
I've seen people that intentionally lived off unemployment for as long as they possibly could..... and only when the unemployment ran out, did they go find another job. Why didn't they get a job the week after they were laid off? They didn't have to.
I remember reading a research paper on people during the sub-prime crash, who were living in their homes without employment.
What the research found was that people didn't find a job, until their homes were foreclosed on. The moment a date was set on their evictions..... suddenly.... magically... they were able to find employment... even during a recession!
Why didn't they find a job long long before the foreclosure? Because they didn't have to.
Welfare is inherently bad. It allows people to be lazy, and unproductive, which ultimately hurts them even more than the cost of welfare hurts society.
Colleges are run predominately by left-wingers. They waste money, over-pay their employees and live in this fantasy world they try to project on their students. The only reason their fantasy hasn't completely fallen apart yet is beause the government is willing to give a kid majoring in pyramid constuction a $250K loan which he will never be able to pay back. Then to top it off, the same people,(liberals) complain about all the student debt out there. There is an amazing amount if indiocy in the Democratic Party.