You mean stuff like Medicare and Social Security, into which responsible, hard-working people paid for 40 years? i agree.
That’s a far cry from the expanded welfare state which began under Obama. He got rid of the work requirements, and now with liberals redistributing taxpayers’ earnings to people who won’t get jobs, we are in a country where people feel entitled to get other people to subsidize their rent and give them $1000 worth of food a month for their families.
A couple of things. Even if you paid into Social Security for 40 years, if you retire at 65 and live to be 72, you will get everything you paid into it back. The average life span in this country is 78 now. Do the math.
Medicare is even worse. You pretty much get everything you paid into it back if you have one major illness. That's how much medical care costs...
As for the welfare state, the problem was that the 90's welfare "reform" didn't work when the recessions of the Aughts hit. That's why most of those policies had to be scrapped.
Now, I'd have no problem with workfare. The government pays you a salary and you have to show up to work somewhere. The problem with that is, the loyalty will be to the government, not the employer. So you won't see the kinds of abuses of the working poor you'd see now. It would almost be like (GASP) a union.
Once people lose a sense of pride in working for a living, and are content to take government charity, productivity drops, as we‘ve seen, fewer goods make for higher inflation, as we’ve seen, and the country is a mess.
Um, wow... How can you be so wrong about everything.
We have inflation because 1) we have an outright labor shortage that has little to do with welfare people and 2) the costs of commodities is increasing internationally.
For the latter, I could have told you that inflation was coming two years ago. Between Trump's tariffs and increase demand for commodities (oil, metals, etc.) internationally, prices were going to go up. It just took a while to get down to the consumer.
The latter is a bigger problem. You see, as fun as "putting them welfare people to work" sounds, the point is, we didn't give them the job skills. And now we have a problem of Baby Boomers retiring at a faster rate than Millennials can replace them in the workforce. So that Millennial can demand an exorbitant salary, and get it. So the usual plan of "Let's raise interest rates to kill economic activity and raise unemployment" probably isn't going to work this time.
I’d be for an announcement stating that all welfare benefits for able- bodied adults with no children under six will stop in 30 days unless they get a job, and then the welfare amount will be adjusted down.
Yes, you really really want to punish poor people for being poor. I kind of wonder what this sociopathy is that you need to kick people less fortunate than you are.