I moved from Seattle to a small town in central KY. I noticed a very large “poor” apartment complex that is on our very own MLKJR road. Every one of them has heat pump air conditioning.
Now, don’t get me wrong, it seems like a requirement here some times of the year, but if no AC was good enough for the rich a hundred years ago, it’s good enough for those who live off handouts.
Maybe it would motivate them to earn their own living.
You make a good point.
I don’t want to see the poor live in misery, but, it also should not be pleasant. Living conditions should be less than ideal, so that they will be motivated to do something productive in their lives.
The message sent should be that, if you want nicer things in life, better living conditions, better cars, etc., then the way people earn such things in life is through working.
There should also be mandatory work or attending classes of some kind, in order to receive benefits. People should not be able to sit on their butts all day. Something should be required of them in order to receive public assistance.
Assistance should be geared towards making these people self supporting and independent of public assistance after a period of time. It should not be an open ended situation, in which nothing is expected of the recipients.
“Now, don’t get me wrong, it seems like a requirement here some times of the year, but if no AC was good enough for the rich a hundred years ago, it’s good enough for those who live off handouts.”
It is never a requirement. It is a luxury.
I grew up in Texas where it gets a lot hotter and never had a/c until I left home after college.
I still was able to make it and now appreciate a/c so much more than those who never had to do without.
That’s exactly Sheriff Arpaio’s philosophy: Stick the inmates in tent city out in the desert and make jail so miserable and uncomfortable that offenders won’t want to come back.
Huh.
Who’d’a thunk it?