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Far past the time to end it.
If welfare was only for those who cannot work – seriously cannot work – then millions of able bodied people would have no recourse but to find a job,
Can’t find a job? That’s because we let in too many illegals who consume almost all the job growth in the nation.
But then the tools will bleat:
“But illegals do the work that Americans won’t do.”
The answer to that is:
“Cut off welfare benefits and see what work Americans are willing to do.”
And you know what will happen in a lot of cases? People will conclude that picking lettuce doesn’t give them the lifestyle they want. So then they’ll consider self-improvement. Go to school nights. Get that GED, Get a better job. Go to school nights at a community college, get an associates degree. Get a better job. Go as far as you want.
OR
Come up with an idea based upon actual experience – discover a need or a niche. Pursue it and supply that need and/or niche. Get rich.
You’ll notice that in that sequence, there’s nothing about spawning kids or marriage. That’s because first things need to be first.
You’ll also notice this did not require hordes of immigrants from the Middle East.
It might also have the salutary effect of bringing prices down and raising productivity and the general standard of living for millions.
Ben Franklin understood this well:
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
“I am for doing good to the poor, but…I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed…that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”
Far past the time to end it.
If welfare was only for those who cannot work – seriously cannot work – then millions of able bodied people would have no recourse but to find a job,
Can’t find a job? That’s because we let in too many illegals who consume almost all the job growth in the nation.
But then the tools will bleat:
“But illegals do the work that Americans won’t do.”
The answer to that is:
“Cut off welfare benefits and see what work Americans are willing to do.”
And you know what will happen in a lot of cases? People will conclude that picking lettuce doesn’t give them the lifestyle they want. So then they’ll consider self-improvement. Go to school nights. Get that GED, Get a better job. Go to school nights at a community college, get an associates degree. Get a better job. Go as far as you want.
OR
Come up with an idea based upon actual experience – discover a need or a niche. Pursue it and supply that need and/or niche. Get rich.
You’ll notice that in that sequence, there’s nothing about spawning kids or marriage. That’s because first things need to be first.
You’ll also notice this did not require hordes of immigrants from the Middle East.
It might also have the salutary effect of bringing prices down and raising productivity and the general standard of living for millions.
Ben Franklin understood this well:
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
“I am for doing good to the poor, but…I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed…that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”
Necessity is the mother of invention.