Despite overly generous welfare benefits, the numbers suggest the economy isn’t improving. While it may be too easy to obtain welfare benefits, if people had better paying jobs they wouldn’t qualify for benefits.
Around here, (central Kentucky), this statement rings true. The average pay is $10 per hour. When compared to the welfare payouts the average person, (male or female), loses out economically to those on welfare. Sad but true... and I see the effects of welfare on the community as each year passes by.
Landlords don’t want to put money into their property because the tenants won’t pay for better living conditions and the landlord still has to pay property taxes and more on those properties. The Towns are running at near a deficit and although the can raise the tax load to bring in more money, those that they tax are crying out because the loads are breaking them.
It becomes a vicious circle. What is the remedy? At the very real risk of being called a cruel unfeeling monster, my solution is... Stop the Welfare Check, eliminate the minimum wage and lastly enforce rigorously the immigration laws already on the books.
Alas I know that what I think is the right thing to do is nothing but a conservative’s pipe dream. The reality is that the Nation known as the United States of America is going to end up in a Civil War of unbelievable complexity.
I see the same thing in the country counties of western and northwestern Michigan. Welfare pays better than jobs. At lot of folks are enterprising, they’re more than willing to work under the table. The issue for them isn’t that they don’t want to work, it’s that they don’t want to report income and see their benefits disappear.
The only way to stop this is to substantially reduce the amount of welfare people receive. The problem with that is that businesses have become, on some level, dependent on welfare. Grocery stores are dependent on the overly generous food stamp benefits people get. I once looked up how much my family would get if we qualified for food stamps. It was more than we spend out of our own pocket. Grocery stores are reaping the benefit of these over payments. So are landlords, which can guarantee themselves a rent check each month through Section 8 housing. Those people are going to fight against cutting back as much as the recipients.
Ultimately with an $18 trillion debt, fast approaching $20 trillion, we cannot keep paying welfare benefits forever. No doubt, there are other expenditures that have contributed to the debt. Those need to be cut too. But we can’t provide food stamps for a family of six that is over and above what a typical middle class family of six pays on groceries. People won’t starve, they’ll shop sales like I do.