08-25-2015, 05:04 PM
(08-25-2015, 04:59 PM)fredtoast Wrote: And again you refuse to face reality.
Anecdotal evidence of people being lazy does not change reality. And in the real world there will always be a large portion of the population that is either unemployed or have a low paying job.
Even if your cousin and every other person receiving benefits worked as hard as possible there would not be enough well paying jobs for them. It just is not possible no matter how much you make the poor suffer.
Until you face reality there is no reason to discuss this topic. Taking away benefits would not do away with all poor people because there are just not enough well paying jobs to support all of them.
So please tell us Fred, in your opinion, how much a person would have to make in annual income in order to survive without all of these government handouts, and then tell us why anyone would choose to work their ass off just for the bare minimum when they can get the exact same place by doing nothing or next to nothing?
If you're handed free rent, free food, free daycare, free healthcare, and so on, how much do you think those things cost? Probably close to $2000 per month, right? Tell me what a person with no high school education can do in order to make $2000 more per month that doesn't include illegal activities or forcing a fast food joint to pay a high school dropout $20 per hour?
