Pays more to be on welfare than get a job.

[NetTecture]

Quote from RichardRimes:

Peilth I actually agree that for most single women with 2 young children she is better off staying home with them and collecting welfare than working for $10 an hour, and the kids are usually better off...assuming she is not on drugs or supporting a druggie BF. The biggest problem IMO with welfare is that people become conditioned to low expectations for both themselves and their children and money like drugs is habit forming where eventually you begin to think society OWES you this support. It is a downward spiral and trying to get out of it becomes almost impossible. The children and grandchildren who are raised in this condition will more likely than not just repeat the process.

Full agreement here, and that is the real problem.

 

[Eight]

I was working, commuting, paying taxes and a couple of doors away a family was milking the system. They had a higher quality of life than I did by a long way... I dropped out. I was eligible for unemployment and then the economy went to shit and they extended it year after year, I went through my savings and eventually I was old enough for Social Security. It's fantastically better than the rat race, just fantastically better. I have all day to work out the trading problem, the billiards problem, the supplements/herbs/nutrition problem, the problem of understanding my fellow humans and a lot more...

There always was a choice for people between hunt-gather and farm. HG's had a two hour work day and used the rest of their time to "articulate their culture" as the anthropologists say, but they would starve in a drought. Farmers had long work days, ate a worse diet but they would get through the drought better. The modern choices of work or welfare parallel that.

 

[Covertibility]

Has Cato gone full Koch (aka the republican ammo shop) or are they still libertarian?

I notice they haven't given up on the "mandated wage increases leads to unemployment" meme.

 

[Scataphagos]

Quote from Zr1Trader:

"... I guess I don't blame them for wanting free money in America

People in Hell want ice water, too.

And why is it moral for the makers in this country to support immigrants (and ne'er-do-well citizens), just because they "want"?

 

[zdreg]

some other study showed that unemployment benefits = $12.50/hr
people coming off unemployment avg. $15/hr. at a new job.


that is the reason people on unemployment(99weeks of checks with extended federal benefits) wait till near the end of receiving unemployment checks before looking for a job.

would you work for an extra $2.50/hr. if u could stay at home and play video games?

 

[Scataphagos]

I recall reading a story a couple of years back about an IT/tech guy who turned down a $60,000/yr job offer.

After weighing the benefits of the income (and taxes thereon) vs. his tax-free government subsidies, he passed up employment.

America. What a country!

 

[zdreg]

Quote from Scataphagos:

I recall reading a story a couple of years back about an IT/tech guy who turned down a $60,000/yr job offer.

After weighing the benefits of the income (and taxes thereon) vs. his tax-free government subsidies, he passed up employment.

America. What a country!

"America. What a country!"

the ponzi scam known as the US is coming to an end.

wait till inflation heats up. then true suffering will begin.