Ray From Cleveland
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Just think about it logically. Which program is going to have a better long term result: A program that gives money to someone who refuses to work, or a program that pushes that same person to get a job and work their way up the income ladder?
After you get a job and work, you'll be making more money, and moving up in the world.
After you are on welfare, you start again at the bottom rung of the economy.
Which one of those really helps?
And what are some of the keys that lift people out of poverty? Being a better person. Having a "protestant work ethic". Showing up on time. Working consistently and with honesty and integrity.
Welfare and food stamps can't teach you that. Yet all those things I've heard preached and taught at multiple Christian churches.
My father not so proudly admits he only has a 9th grade education. Like many during his time, he had to quit school to work and help support the family. But my fathers philosophies are unique.
I remember him telling me as a child, money is easy to make; an idiot can make money. But money is hard to keep. A financially successful person is one who can make a lot of money and able to keep it.
With the exception of those with mental or physical disabilities, a person can make little money and still do okay under my fathers philosophy: Graduate high school, don't have kids you can't afford, stay out of trouble with the law, don't try addictive substances like drugs or alcohol, and work a lot of hours. It's really not that hard.
But today and for many years now, people don't think about keeping the money part. They act irresponsibly and then point to society for their failures. For instance, it's estimated that the cost to raise a child today to the age of 18 years old is $233,600, and that's just for one child. Yet the poor often have several children and pass that cost to us taxpayers, because they've been conditioned that government will always be there to bailout their irresponsible actions.
Once you drop out of school, get involved in drugs and perhaps gang related activity, have kids you could never afford, you will always be poor, and that's not my fault or yours. Under most conditions, poor people bring their plight upon themselves.