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In The Great Depression, Americans Worked For Government Checks. Now People Get Checks For Doing Nothing
Despite a population that is now more prosperous and more educated by several orders of magnitude, we clearly have become more lazy.
Despite a population that is now more prosperous and more educated by several orders of magnitude, we clearly have become more lazy.
Civilian Conservation Corps Archives - The Federalist
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To celebrate another $1,400 in stimulus checks, a quickly withdrawn video from Wisconsin Democrats showed people dancing to a catchy rap song with captions of “$$$ IN THE POCKET” and “THANK YOU POTU$.” As Joy Pullmann noted, its release on the same day abysmal job numbers came out was a testament to Democrats’ blindness to economic reality. It also attested to our culture’s devolving expectation of something for nothing.
America has definitely changed. Juxtapose that video with images from the sand-dusted, poverty-stricken Great Depression of the 1930s, and it begs the question: What would these hungry, hardscrabble folks say, the ones who got a check only by signing up to build parks, roads, bridges, dams and many other public works projects in exchange?
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The “Stimmy Shimmy” dancers and others celebrating the easy money flowing from D.C. aren’t stupid. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki may have missed it, but most people know “stimmy” checks and federal unemployment compensation dwarf current wage levels in some areas of the country. While the rationale isn’t illogical (“Shall I go to work today or earn more in my recliner?”), the attitude that arises from it will ultimately harm their personal growth.
Our politicians should be the adults in the room, but instead they choose to give out free candy, creating a generation of dependent children. Old values of hard work and self-sufficiency are succumbing to the thrill of free “$$$ IN THE POCKET” from “POTU$.” Tough times once produced the Greatest Generation, but we may now be witnessing the rise of the Gimme Generation—and that cannot bode well for our nation.
A generation ago, they made money the old-fashioned way: they earned it.
Comment:
Structures built by WPA and CCC stand and provide service today. No elaborate studies, engineered plans, technically advanced materials or equipment just know how.
What has to be done to reverse the destruction of the failed Great Society and War on Poverty programs?
I see lobbying for money for more early childhood development programs. Why haven’t the ones that have already spent so much money worked?
"Out of the 10 million jobless men in the United States in 1935, 3 million were helped by WPA jobs alone. While FDR believed in the elementary principles of justice and fairness, he also expressed disdain for doling out welfare to otherwise able workers". (www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fdr-creates-the-wpa)
Chyna Joey Xi BaiDin's handlers have gone into overdrive pushing benefits to single moms.
The 39% figure of kids raised by both parents will continue to go down.