Free! Let’s give everything to everyone for FREE! Yea...that’s the American way. Work is overrated. It is unjust that everybody does not have everything FREE!!!!!
What would you propose?
Lose your house, starve to death and try not to drop dead anywhere where your corpse will create a stink?
Consider, some people go to college, get a degree and over a lifetime acquire experiences that makes them valuable. They buy a nice home, drive a nice car and have manageable debt. Making 6 figures, they pay ~$30K/yr in taxes.
Now, their company outsources their job to India; or the company doesn’t make the profit that was hoped for, so the company lays off 1,200 employees. Through no fault of their own, they now have no income.
Are you better off paying a small sum to help them survive until they can find another job; or are you better off watching them lose everythign they own?
In places like Detroit; where unemployment is hitting 15%; can you imagine 15% of the houses in your community being foreclosed? What would that do to your property values? Those houses sit empty, the banks are stuck with the debts, and the houses eventually fall apart. Talk about economic devastation.
What do you propose?