| raptors11 said: I don't think we should have any welfare or support for people. When did welfare become a basic human right that people seem to think they're entitled to? |
It became something that people are entitled to when a larger majority of people (people that don't make a lot of money) decided for themselves that it isn't fair that other people have more money than them, whether or not this is caused by them not working or not giving a rats butt about school when they were in it. The funniest part about the whole thing is that even if these people made an average of 100,000 a year, and the conservatives made 50,000 a year, in the end, the conservatives would still have CONSIDERABLY more money than the wasteful liberals...and they would still manage to get some of this money from you (in the form of you investing the money, making a profit on it, and then getting taxed on it, rather than them just spending it and not making any additional profits on it).
Something funny that I know from personal experience is a friend of my Mom's that was working part-time. Based on the number of hours that she worked, she would either receive unemployment benefits for the week or wouldn't receive them (I think it was based on working more or less than 20 hours per week in her instance) (Now I don't know 100% of the story, but this is the just of it). While she didn't take advantage of it, she would have been better off to work 20 hours and get the benefits than to work anywhere from 21-27 hours, and the 28th hour finally got her a little more money. So this lady had to work an additional 8 hours a week to make a couple extra dollars, what is the INCENTIVE to do that?
Money can't buy happiness. Just video games, which make me happy.
