What happens when we can no longer afford to pay for it all?
People on welfare have probably not worked in years and are complete dependents on system. They have no skills, no work history, and probably have never graduated from High School. Worst of all they lack basic skills and a good work ethic. They were probably way overweight and with a myriad of health issues and probably drug dependency. Unfortunately, the system is designed to make them hopeless dependents. This is welfare’s biggest failure.
What happens when their benefits are cut? Or worse, the few people still working, barely making a living, are forced to pay more taxes so that those on welfare can continue to receive their benefits?
It will not end well.
It is cyclical. Generation after generation have been on them. It’s all they know.
Back in the day, my secretary and the welfare secretary shared the front lobby reception window. The welfare secretary, who’d worked there for years, finally had enough. She added up what her “clients” were receiving and compared it to her smaller paycheck, left the figures as her resignation letter and walked off the job that day.
$19 trillion debt says we are past the point we can pay for it all. That is why wecare racking up a trillion dollars new debt.
The financial system will collapse. There is no alternative. It is just a question of when and what event sets it omm.
Meanwhile, keep hoardibg those tulip bulbs.
They will starve to death.
Quark: "Let me tell you something about Hew-mons, Nephew. They're a wonderful, friendly people, as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working.
But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those same friendly, intelligent, wonderful people... will become as nasty and as violent as the most bloodthirsty Klingon.
You don't believe me? Look at those faces. Look in their eyes."
- - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Siege of AR-558