This is collectivist thinking. Have the peasants work for their 2 rubles a day instead of just handing the rubles to them.
Human nature being what it is, people quickly figure out that whether you work hard or don’t work hard, you still get your 2 rubles a day. So, you get a whole culture of people who show up and sleep in the shade, pretend to work, or lean on their shovels and smoke all day long.
No reward, no incentive, no productivity.
I know, I’m wasting my breath trying to talk sense to Ivy League grads who have all the answers.
I saw your complaint in action when I visited Ceylon. Along the south-west coast are a bunch of swanky hotels, for the tourists. The “main” road leading to them is a 1.5 lane disaster slowly disintegrating.
Lo, here is a road repair crew, five strong. One man digging the dirt out of the pothole, very slowly. Two more leaning on shovels, resting. A supervisor in a white suit, smoking and giving orders. And the fifth - holding a parasol over the supervisor to shelter him from the sun.
“This country” - I said to myself - “for all her natural riches, this country will be dirt poor forever.”
Human nature being what it is, people quickly figure out that whether you work hard or don’t work hard, you still get your 2 rubles a day. So, you get a whole culture of people who show up and sleep in the shade, pretend to work, or lean on their shovels and smoke all day long.
You mean like this?
"Five thousand years ago, Moses said, "Hitch up your camel. Pick up your shovel. Mount your ass. I will lead you to the promised land."
Five thousand years later, Franklin Roosevelt said, "Light up a Camel. Lay down your shovel. Sit on your ass. This is the promised land."
Or the Soviet Union's "we pretend to work and they pretend to pay us?" (Which is what it would become under hyperinflation or a devaluation of the dollar.)
No reward, no incentive, no productivity.
First we have to re-take the law schools and the courts, in order to eliminate the nutcase Marxist liberal judges from positions of power: and in order to do that we need to replace the Communist/homosexual axis in the media.
It's an uphill struggle.
After that is done, we take the welfare reform which the GOP forced down Clinton's throat to the next level, by requiring productive work as a condition of transfer payments, and stop incentivizing illegitimate children.
I know, I’m wasting my breath trying to talk sense to Ivy League grads who have all the answers.
I agree that Ivy League grads don't have all the answers, that's why I'm posting.
Obaama (and advisors), Bush '43', Clinton, Bush '41' were all Ivy grads, hence the hell-hole we're in. Reagan and Palin were NOT Ivy grads, which explains why they got stuff right.
The real objection is the literal Third-World status of the cities, caused by the deliberate destruction of the family and of work ethic, to provide a disenfranchised, bitter, easily-fooled bloc of voters. Racist? You bet, that's why the Democrats (party of Slavery, the Copperheads opposing the Civil War in the North, the KKK, Jim Crow, and opposition to Civil Rights) did it.
Look at it this way. In the Deep South -- in the midst of the Great Depression -- BEFORE voting and Civil Rights laws, when the very KKK staged a march in full hoods through DC as an expression of *political* power -- what was the rate of narcotics usage and black-on-black crime? Racism was worse than today, and standard of living infinitely lower. So poverty and racism cannot be the answer.
The answer? Christianity, intact families, and a work ethic.
Cheers!