"I love the 'there is not enough work for everyone' line. I would bet that many of these people who are able to work (physically and mentally) could find something."
I think they mean: There are not enough high paying white colar desk jobs that require no skills and little work for everyone. I don't know if there are enough jobs for everyone, but there are plenty of jobs in the unskilled sector. I see want help wanted signs at fast food and retail stores all of the time. Part of the problem is that many people would take a pay cut if they got hired at one of these jobs. That's before factoring in the new reality of Obamacare, were many places are limiting hours to 28 per week. It pays more to stay on the dole. " I think a better message for avoiding long-term poverty and high incarceration rates is: Graduate from high school. Get married before you have children and stay married. Work at any kind of job, even one that starts out paying the minimum wage. Finally, do not engage in criminal behavior." - Walter Williams J - When the Great Depression came [upon the failing town], the event would have passed unnoticed by the people had it not been for the fact that money began to arrive from the government. They were at first too proud to accept it, and then they accepted it and were ashamed, and in due course they were not ashamed but came to think of it as rightfully theirs. The relief checks became the way of life of the town, an assurance of a livelihood for even the most indolent and feckless. When times at last improved, there was a leaching away of the brighter and abler young, who went to seek a future elsewhere; and by the time relief became welfare, no one there worked at all except for a few torpid merchants, whose customers paid with government checks. The town would not die, but it lived or half-lived as a parasite. The citizens know no other life These are people who do not know want, but have never known prosperity. They do not know ambition or thrift; neither do they know toil or hunger. Their possessions are cheap and gaudy and soiled, their diet deficient in nourishment and abundant in sugar, their music a commercial debasement of the folk music of their fathers. They drink fiercely and are given to casual incest and sometimes slice each other with knives. Their only dreams are of winning prizes on television giveaway shows. These are the descendants of the stern mountaineers Down the years each generation has been more misshapen than its predecessor. -Bob Leman from the stor ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:360579 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
