Apr 21st 2015, 22:43:04
Nobody minds giving someone a hand when they need it. Stuff happens to everyone at one time or another. The problem is when people abuse the situation and keep getting it for years. Free money is hard to pass up. The answer is stop making it free. After 6 months or a year make it mandatory to work for the city two days a week to keep receiving food stamps and 3 days a week to keep receiving welfare. Have them clean up trash on the streets or paint over graffiti around the city. That might give them incentive to find a real job.
Transfers of benefits to individuals through social welfare programs have increased from less than 1 federal dollar in 4 (24 percent) in 1963 to almost 3 out of 5 (59 percent) in 2013. In that half-century, entitlement payments were, Eberstadt says, America’s “fastest growing source of personal income,”
Transfers of benefits to individuals through social welfare programs have increased from less than 1 federal dollar in 4 (24 percent) in 1963 to almost 3 out of 5 (59 percent) in 2013. In that half-century, entitlement payments were, Eberstadt says, America’s “fastest growing source of personal income,”