Personally, I'm tired of trying to make excuses for the poor. We tend to idolize the poor while the rich, who are the engine of this economic system, are demonized. Enough! Make two columns labeled "Rich" and "Poor". Under the "Rich" column, write in "supports the freeloaders of this country", "create jobs", "invests", "innovates", "give scholarships", "produces goods and services", "supports the arts", plus a bunch of other things you might think of. Under the "Poor" column, write: "consumes"...that's all I've got.
If it were me, we'd do away with food stamps, welfare, etc. and place it back on charity and the church, like it used to be pre-1930 and if you can fog a mirror but check public assistance, you need to show up each morning for a public job doing whatever needs to be done, from sweeping the streets with a toothbrush to cleaning toilets. Perhaps then you'd realize you're better off to get a real job than sit home on your fat a$$ sucking the life out of productive members of society.
YEP....what YOU said....we may be heading there....who knows....I still fear an EMP attack...
Don’t get me wrong, I agree by and large. It’s just complicated. The woman with 5 children might get a job, but then her children go to day care. Maybe she’s such a bad mother, day care is better. Maybe day care workers will actually care more about them than their mother. Maybe they won’t get abused worse in day care than at home. Then again, maybe not.
Personally, I wouldn’t want to be poor and home taking food stamps, but I’d like it better than poor, taking day care benefits of arguable benefit (which btw also costs us taxpayers), and trusting the government to look after the kids. Same goes for their public schooling.
And don’t forget that many of the poor are former producers, now consuming, but economics is not just what you see, it’s also what you don’t see. Like the taxpaying they did, and the jobs they provided.