It Doesn’t Pay to Work.

[ez bake]

I wonder how someone's schedule would look, working 40 hours a week to pull in <29K/yr and still having time to sit in all of these agency offices for hours to pull in their welfare. Has anyone in this thread had any experience with these programs?


But it makes for a good rabble-rousing article.

No $#!+

I'm pretty sure a lot of folks on this board think the entire democrat party is on welfare (despite that being physically impossible).

 

[LightningCrash]

No $#!+

I'm pretty sure a lot of folks on this board think the entire democrat party is on welfare (despite that being physically impossible).

The statistics do point to more welfare recipients supporting the democrats. In items like public housing, the recipients are something like 80% democrat supporters, but the rest of the stats I've seen are around 60-50%.

Even with this welfare group identifying as democrats, the statistics I've seen indicate that the average Democrat makes more money than the average Republican. So when we consider, "at what point do the makers (earners) get fed up with the takers?", we're kind of at an impasse. The people who earn the most money are the ones supporting these programs.

 

[LightningCrash]

I don’t have a comment one way or another pertaining to the article, but I don’t see where in the quote it stated that the person would work and collect benefits. Looks like they were saying it was an either or. Or did I miss your point?

It's right there in the portion of the article you quoted.

 

[HMFIC]

<sigh>

really? how did this turn into a political D v.s R thread.

Shouldn't ALL people be disgusted with the seemingly insane concept that this graph points out?

 

[cjjtulsa]

It's right there in the portion of the article you quoted.

You’re too fast; I deleted my comment when I proof read it and realized that.

 

[10Seconds]

I wonder how someone's schedule would look, working 40 hours a week to pull in <29K/yr and still having time to sit in all of these agency offices for hours to pull in their welfare. Has anyone in this thread had any experience with these programs?

But it makes for a good rabble-rousing article.

Thats just it. The leaches are NOT working 40 hrs a week. So pleanty of time to try and get handouts.

 

[Glocktogo]

I wonder how someone's schedule would look, working 40 hours a week to pull in <29K/yr and still having time to sit in all of these agency offices for hours to pull in their welfare. Has anyone in this thread had any experience with these programs?


But it makes for a good rabble-rousing article.

I'll bite. If someone is working 40 hours a week and earning $29K a year, why would they need ANY benefits entitlements at all?

 

[tntrex]

I just don't understand America evolving into the government taking money from one person and giving it to another.

 

[Shootin 4 Fun]

I just don't understand America evolving into the government taking money from one person and giving it to another.

It's for the children.

 

[Jim Corrigan]

Well first, it isn't "your" "money". It's a greenback voucher, privately owned by a business that holds everyone of us hostage. It's legal tender, that's all. You trade it for goods or services, it's not "money."

Secondly, if we didn't have the awful welfare state, people might likely starve, at the very least they wouldn't be able to buy all the crap we have to buy as a nation to keep capital flowing through the market. People starving and living in the streets looks real good for Uncle Sam.

Thirdly, the cost of living is already outrageous in America, at least some parts. So when you say "take money from someone and give it to someone else" it's not nearly as cut and dry as that. They aren't taking "your money" beccause you never really had it in the first place.