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MrRodgers -> RE: An Interesting Take on Welfare and Taxes (5/21/2013 1:24:05 AM)
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ORIGINAL: TricklessMagic
It's England, if that is how they like to roll then let them roll that way. I was on the Florida Bar Referral Panel for low income folks and more often than not they were check collectors. Physically fit but for some mental issues like anxiety and depression. You know what most of us feel on a weekly basis working full-time jobs and worrying about bills. If folks have legitimate health problems I don't have a problem with them receiving help but their productivity should have to be maximized first before just handing them a check. I know a cancer survivor who is fighting her third battle with breast cancer and is working to earn the capped $1,000 a week she's allowed to earn while she receives welfare and healthcare. She could work, and wants to work forty hours a week but then she'd lose the healthcare coverage for the cancer treatment and that's the biggest thing. That's where I have a problem. She needs the healthcare so let her work a forty hour work week and simply take ten percent of her paycheck. From a forty hour work week she'd earn more combined than the $1,000 plus the welfare but the system won't let her.
We have crops that need harvesting, buildings that have to be torn down, and rather than pay people to take care of it, we give them handouts because their bodies are fit but their minds are supposedly unhealthy. It don't take much brain power to bend at the back and pick beans. But we will leave these unhealthy people free to sit on their asses and pickup drug habits (the depressed and anxious ones). If you can't physically work or you are younger than 16 (16 year olds should get help if they maintain good grades or a part time job of twenty hours or more) then you should get some help. If you are physically able to work but for some reason are mentally unfit to where you sit and color all day (seriously I've seen it doing Pro Bono for friends of mine who are Targeted Case Managers for Medicaid) but can reason and drive a car, then you need to be picking fruit and harvesting crops for forty hours a week in order to receive aid. If the mentally unfit has a break down then take them to the hospital till they are fit to work again. Don't hand them money to spend on what they want.
All fine and dandy alright except there is one big problem which you just gloss over. When people do work and even full time...IT isn't enough, period.
So until the return on labor is raised to a level that begins to reflect a society's overall economic performance...we will forever have this argument.
Look put this in the mental bank. Japan for 30-40 years had the 2nd ranked or largest economy in the world. Ok, got it ? 2ND !! The Japanese people enjoyed the 24th ranked standard of living. That huge economy didn't do those people much good did it ?
Kinkroids, slaves had jobs, those jobs didn't do them much good either, did they ?
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