WHY would I want to work when I can get the gubermint to send me a check?
If I can add a few kids into the equation, that check can get pretty big. It is the reason I vote straight Democrat Ticket! /sarc
July 4, 2017 Wall Street Journal had article Get Able Bodied Americans Off the Couch by Peter Cove. Excellent reading.
We all know types including young males (under 35) who live with their mother in her basement and have a number one activity listed as “video games”. Maybe smoke weed but not checked off on the surveys.
Also neighborhood persons of color and aliens (Muslims as well as Latinos) who we can see on our day off from work, at malls, shopping centers, movies,miniature golf places and all the rest. When the next day dawns, we are back at work but they are still hanging out-—on our dime as taxpayers.
Who is the stupid one????
Watch Judge Judy. I swear half the People who show up there say they are on SS Disability but I never see a Wheelchair.
Of course one of the local Sponsors of Judge Judy is none other than Phil Latour, Disability Lawyer, who uses the tagline, and I’m also a Psychologist!
Everyone in the Ads are saying, Phil got me my Check, and not one of them is lying in a Hospital Bed.
Daytime TV, full of Disability Lawyers and Ambulance Chasing Lawyers. My favorite of course is Larry H. Parker, he’ll fight for you!
things like this make me thankful God knows all and in His timing takes up issues with each person.
I also think repeatedly using things like govt handouts and grants etc are some of the things that may carry weight in the end when we meet our Ultimate Judge.
Many welfare recipients are not stupid, so why hold a job if a family of 4 gets $60,000 worth of free stuff from the gov’t? That is how much one has to earn to match life style of a welfare family.
Welfare should only be given for six months twice during a lifetime. After that, they’re on their own.
Or....they just aren’t admitting that they’re working....
the ones that can’t reasonably do productive work, fine... if no family friends church synagogue or charity help available... then let’s give them a decent welfare benefit...this should be done at local or state level, not feds. feds have no business giving out welfare money. we need to get fed welfare office shut down asap, imho.
In this country, the states are supposed to be the governments of general powers, the feds only are supposed to perform limited functions and welfare benefits are NOT included
Labor force participation is still at a historic low so the low unemployment rate masks a big problem with people simply not wanting to work. Trump really needs to cut back on SSI disability, food stamps, federal welfare grants and other federal benefit programs to get the able-bodied back to work.
They’re JUST figuring this out?
It’s been going on for decades.
Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.
Going to trade school or a two year community college should be mandatory for everyone who is on welfare who is not disabled to the point of physically not being able to work.
I’ve only heard of ONE case in my entire life of a situation where I thought welfare was justified.
It was a situation where a man, a father of four young girls who was their father and married to their mother, had a degenerative muscle wasting disease and he was slowly dying from it.
He was in a wheelchair at the time I heard about it.
She grew her own garden and canned and did what she could to make ends meet on that limited income.
In 40 years, that was the ONLY situation I ever heard of that I thought public assistance was justified.
Why should they when we pay tehm so well to do nothing?
To be fair the same could be said for many civil servants. For every family on welfare there are 3 or 4 civil servants "serving" them.
Wasn’t it Marcus Aurelius who said “Stand erect, or be MADE to stand erect”? Needs to be repeated.