Well, well, well. Looks like when government enforces the rules and doesn’t let people get hand outs forever that the people actually get up and go to work. The dirty little secret of Welfare is that a lot of people — black and white — are just plain lazy. If they get enough to sit in an apartment with their smokes and booze and watch cable TV and talk on their Obamaphone, they are OK with that lifestyle. As long as they don’t have to work. But if they are forced to work, they will. No one wants to say that as part of the public policy debate — that people are lazy and need to be forced to work.
No, see my post 8; they are all on SSDI now.
Working is a habit, a person who is used to working forty hours a week or more can feel something like withdrawal symptoms when unemployed but someone who has never really gotten into the habit can feel quite comfortable doing nothing. Someone who has reached adulthood without ever learning what it means to work may have no desire to ever work, that is why I think it is a shame when children don’t have an opportunity to do some kind of productive work growing up. I started doing chores as soon as I was able to walk and lift and carry something very small. By the time I was able to lift a single piece of firewood I was helping to fill the bin.