Appreciate it.
As much as it irks me to fund do-nothings, the fact remains that someone on welfare may “skate” today, but the long-term effect is that they and their children are becoming more and more locked into poverty.
You can’t get “promoted” within the welfare system. You can’t get a new “job” within the welfare system. You take the money — which is big money for doing nothing, but a pittance in terms of being able to *accumulate wealth* — and that is it.
Moreover: long-term welfare is debilitating, leaving people without the will to work. I shudder to think what generational welfare does to people.
I think we saw that helpless baked-in dependence in New Orleans (and its glorious self-reliant obverse in Mississippi and Nashville).