If we make welfare less lucrative than work, we’ll have enough laborers.
Worth repeating...
If we make welfare less lucrative than work, we’ll have enough laborers.
Current recipients of which, fortunately, haven’t seen a “pay cut” yet due to the current crackdown.
BUMP!!
Growing up, this is how High School kids made money for dates, cars, stereo’s, clothes and college.
Today, because of the illegal aliens, many High School kids simply CANNOT get these jobs, because they do not speak Spanish.
If you pay to do nothing, and more if you have a child, then you get more of it.
I agree with you, but wonder — are we sitting in our ivory towers? What if we were say waiters at restaurants with spouses who are, say shop assistants and with one kid and low debts?
You lose your job in say NYC. Would you or me pack up, leave the tiny apartment with school nearby and then move on a temporary, daily paid job to pick cabbages in the mid-west? And this is a job we’d not know anything about and we’d not be physically fit enough for it (after years waiting tables or standing behind a counter).
Yes, folks did this in the 1800s and earlier, but I ask you - would you do that?
As for me it’s so far outside my situation I can give you a theoretical “if I were in that situation I’d ...” - but that’s theory.