I would really like to see true and valid stats on how much of the government’s entitlement money goes to people who won’t work.
Which is, as several posters have suggested, why we need guest workers to pay taxes to keep social programs afloat.
If we did a hard reform of government benefits, tightening restrictions and requiring work from the able-bodied, how many now on the dole would find a way to get back in the workforce paying their own way?
I’m talking about government disability programs, Section 8, Medicaid, food stamps, etc. for anyone under retirement age. Abolish food stamps and use the money for soup and sandwich kitchens.
Tightening qualifications and requiring government work in exchange for benefits, perhaps on a sliding scale where benefits decrease gradually and work requirements increase the longer you’re on the program.
There would certainly be jobs in those soup kitchens. How much money would be saved if every unskilled government position was filled with temps who lose their benefits if they don’t show up and perform?
Show up and perform — that’s the key. Mexicans do. They work their tails off. A bunch of Americans won’t, even when the jobs are available, and it’s killing us.
Just thinking out loud.