09-07-2015, 11:15 PM
(09-07-2015, 10:53 PM)PhilHos Wrote: They do, though. It's an unintentional side effect, but it's there. People can't be weaned off. They either receive benefits or they don't. If they get a job but it doesn't pay as much as the benefits they were receiving, there's no incentive for them to keep working.
The problem is that it's so easy to work around these requirements. I see it all the time, unfortunately.
I don't think many would say that we should rid ourselves of these programs entirely, but we definitely need to reform them. Make vocational training and education a more important part. Focus on the whole hand up rather than hand out, to use a common idiom.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
