Archived Maine Wants Candy, Soda Excluded From Food Stamps (Wall Street Journal) (archive.is)
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Archived Maine Wants Candy, Soda Excluded From Food Stamps (Wall Street Journal) (archive.is)
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[–] perfectpencil 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
In all fairness, a salad or a snickers would not be the deciding factor for finding steady income. A thousand snickers or a thousands salads also wouldn't matter, either. A fat man can still hold a 100k/yr job. The one thing he has that someone on welfare doesn't are employable skills. If you want to hit the heart of the problem, that is where you go. It just gets complicated with everything revolving around facilitating that.
[–] Lake ago
But if you make these programs as least appealing as possible maybe some of these people will actually work on improving themselves
[–] perfectpencil ago (edited ago)
People always take the path of least resistance (all life forms do, so lets not pretend the poor are an alien species).
If we make welfare really hard to maintain.. what is easier? finding a career or quickly committing a crime? Seeing as folks on welfare probably have been looking for work since forever (even if only passively) I'm willing to bet they won't default to it if you take away their food and did nothing to bring careers to their area. (Even if it's a truck load of snicker's bars). They will try to find the next easiest way to obtain their basic human needs (food, shelter, love etc).
You COULD make welfare harder only IF you made getting a real job easy. Discourage & Encourage together. Personally I'm not one to subscribe to the (rather politically polar) view that the poor are just lazy and need to have a fire lit under their asses to get a job. Its much more complex than that. If that's all it was then we wouldn't have ever needed welfare to begin with. The fear of being destitute and homeless would have been enough to maintain a 100% employment rate.
Personally I believe people can't be herded like sheep or lead like a pack of dogs (by an alpha)....but rather must be lured like cats. Bring good work opportunities to their area that offer a benefit that is greater than being lazy and collecting welfare. Most people would jump on the chance. problem is though, the "low entry" jobs like manufacturing are being given to poor Chinese, not poor Americans.