No surprise, if you’re too lazy to even work to support yourself, that you don’t do anything else for anybody else, either.
One also has to wonder how much illegal immigration has contributed to this, by increasing competition for, and driving down wages for, the sort of labor jobs that these men might otherwise be doing.
But really, why would you want to work even a legal minimum-wage job when you can just sit on your ass and get a cheque? Some might think that people would see out work and self-reliance just out of a sense of self-respect, but these guys largely feel zero shame for drawing the dole. It the communities I grew up in, a man behaving like this would be considered a lazy layabout - a bum - and shunned. My grandfather was a hard-drinking alcoholic, but he worked all his life at the steel mill to support his family. Of course, that was back when there was still a steel mill to work at and make a decent wage.
They are becoming cash only workers. No income taxes, no Obama care. Flying under the economic radar.