You are an exception, really. How many welfare recipients have the same attitude? I dare say very few. Why? Because some where along the way, they were led to believe that they are too good for those jobs, that those jobs are beneath them. And instead of adopting the mantra of hard work, they adopt the attitude of why bother. It is truly an attitude shift in this country. The idea of working hard to get ahead is going the way of the dino, and is being replaced by the 'I deserve better' attitude.
Let 'em go hungry a bit, and they'd be happy to take those jobs.
Agreed...I experienced this first hand just recently when trying to assist a friend's boyfriend because he was unemployed. He wanted me to buy him tools so that he could get a construction job (I had already been paying their rent so they wouldn't become homeless, they owe me about $2000). Since there was a brand new Walmart across the street, I told him to go apply for a stocker job and then he could support him and her while getting his tools at an employee discount as well as getting benefits for them in the meantime. His reply was "I build Walmarts, I don't work in them". Enough said...I told him I was not giving him anything. Now they are homeless...oh, well...