It is the oldest lesson in the human experience. If you teach someone to do something for themselves then you engender self-reliance. If you give them everything that they need, you breed reliance and dependency. The left only has to look to the American Indians and the reservations to see what their entitlement mind set brings. But no, let's continue to 'give' and hope for a different outcome.
The south side of Chicago is a war zone. Hundreds of millions of dollars has done nothing to stem the tide of poverty, out-of-wedlock births and crime. Yet, we hear the same things today we have heard since LBJ... We must provide for those who do not have. What we must do is to provide a means to work your way out of the cycle of poverty... if you do not take the way out, then you're on your own.
Another EXCELLENT thread by Political Chic!
Of course, liberals don't want people to become independent or they won't need liberal politicians anymore. When each person gets $20,610, or $61,830 for a family of three, why would they take a job like the rest of us when it would mean a cut? I don't know if those figures even include the free medical through Medicaid, free cell phones or other giveaway programs. The more children, the more benefits.
Those who work at low paying jobs still make out well and have no incentive to find a higher paying job. If you look at what people are given, on top of their wages, you realize that many are better off than the tax payers who get soaked to pay for their benefits. When they get help with rent, food, schooling, utilities and Medicaid, they end up with more disposable income than most since their paychecks are free and clear because their bills are paid by tax payers. Of course, they are more comfortable on the doles and the liberals need it that way.
A person earning $50,000 or more won't qualify for aid and yet have to pay all their bills, which doesn't leave a lot of disposable income.
I just don't think we should keep increasing aid to the point where they are better off on the doles than the rest of us who make it on our own. We should help long enough for people to get on their feet, but as it is, they keep having more kids to increase benefits rather than try to elevate themselves. The government keeps adding more to the pot, as if they're worried some will leave the liberal plantation. We have 4th and 5th generations of welfare recipients who know how to work the system because they learned from their parents and the more government gives away, the more people will do what they have to in order to qualify.
