I remember years ago, Oprah gave 100 people $50,000 each to help them get “back on their feet”. Even SHE was amazed how quickly these people blew through the money and bought useless stuff. Out of all of them, I think ONE actually managed to turn her life around and put the money to good use.
Oprah would have learned something even more important had she offerred to give those people a $50,000 per year JOB.
She (in theory) would have gotten the work product of her $5mil, and coul have used it to hire more people.
But as soon as they unionized and demanded 15 minute coffe breaks every hour and paid parking spaced and free medical,...
The worst thing I can wish on liberals is that some day they come to understand the consequences of all their good intentions.
One of the worst shows on TV is the “Home Makeover” or whatever they call it, when they give some hard-case family a new home.
They tear down the old home, in most cases, and slap up a monster home with useless bullshit in its place. This is supposed to “help” the family, but probably only leaves them with a huge tax burden. For the money, they could’ve helped a dozen needy families, but they have to spend $50K on flat-screen TVs, game rooms and jacuzzis just to make a big deal.
One sad-sack family immediately went out and mortgaged the home, then defaulted on it.
Shows like this actually destroy my faith in humanity, because people seem to think a plasma TV will cure their ills.