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To: DIRTYSECRET

He’s right.

There’s no incentive to improve oneself when everything is handed to them for free.


2 posted on 06/12/2025 7:24:08 AM PDT by metmom ( He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.”)
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To: metmom

America’s poor are in the top 1% globally.

EC


5 posted on 06/12/2025 7:30:04 AM PDT by Ex-Con777
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To: metmom
Well, they need a carrot as well as a stick. For most of us, working at McDonald's or construction labor was a stepping stone when we're young to something better.

If you look at today's poor, they're not stupid: they know with their lack of skills that's as far as they'll go. And that's assuming some illegal hasn't taken the job. Those jobs won't even pay enough to rent an apartment, let alone enough to make a young man appear a good candidate for marriage.

The result? Crime, massive numbers of out of wedlock births, drug abuse, and multi-generational welfare. All so the rentier class can get a higher profit by outsourcing manufacturing and hiring illegals. That's the real problem.

6 posted on 06/12/2025 7:32:01 AM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: metmom

He’s right.

There’s no incentive to improve oneself when everything is handed to them for free.


It is the word poor that is at issue. “Everyone” would have been better.

ON much reflection, I am glad I grew up poor.


7 posted on 06/12/2025 7:32:12 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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To: metmom

People are panicked about giving up their carefully knitted safety net by venturing into an income or assets level that would threaten it.

We really have created destructive social policies that I used to think were just the result of well-meaning incompetence.


8 posted on 06/12/2025 7:34:11 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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