Why do so many people want others to quot;earnquot; their benefits? -

Isn t that wooden thinking? If there are jobs out there, surely people should be taken off benefits and gainfully employed to do them for at least a minimum wage. Otherwise, people are effectively employed and filling job vacancies in return for benefit money which, I believe, works out to less than the minimum wage. If we get unemployed people to fill job vacancies the number of unemployed will only rise as a result of there being less jobs available. That means more unemployed people filling ever more job vacancies until we turn in to a nation of doleys all working for benefits instead of wages. Am I alone in thinking this is a little strange? Or are those who support the idea of putting unemployed people to work trying to make a bad situation worse? |::::|This, and all your edits is why a free market, laissez faire economic system is preferred over the authoritarian garbage we re force fed by government now.|::::|Surely if unemployed people become employed there will be fewer people on benefits? I can t see how you think otherwise.|::::|A days work for a days pay never hurt anyone.|::::|I suggest you take a course in Logic. Your arguments are full of holes.|::::|I will continue to work because we can t all be on welfare or benefits, here is what I propose we do for leeches that live off of others. Drug testing: I have to take one for my job that pays for their laziness, I say we expand the test and make it inclusive of alcohol and tobacco too. I also think they should have to take a depo-pevera (birth control shot) before receiving benefits, I am not paying for them to keep popping out kids when they can t afford the ones they have. it is not permanent and once off of the program they can go back to indiscriminate breeding. Breeding is not a right it is a responsibility. We should strip them of their right to vote while they are on welfare. If you can t make good enough decisions in your life to stay off of welfare then you can t make a good decision in something as important as our electoral process. When they do vote, they only vote for people that promise them more freebies at my expense. This would be reinstated once they are off of the program. They should have to preform community service for 15 hours a week with a big orange vest that says WELFARE across it. If the usual motivations for a good life don t motivate these people maybe some humiliation would, it would also get them out of the something for nothing mindset. We should cut off food stamps altogether, we need to give them a pallet of food staples like flour and things to make food with so they quit abusing the program and buying steak and everything else that is a luxury food item. Audit them occasionally, I hate when I have to drive by the projects on my way to work and see nicer cars than I have in their driveways. I am not against people getting help when it is necessary but too many use it as a way of life. If we make it as uncomfortable as possible for them instead of coddling them it will motivate them to better themselves instead of staying comfortable on my dime. I am not against anyone but there needs to be an incentive for these people to get off of their a$$ and on their feet. IT IS NOT THE GOVERNMENT S JOB TO PUT A ROOF OVER YOUR HEAD AND FOOD IN YOUR BELLY, HOW ABOUT SOME PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY? EDIT Beggars can t be choosers, and if you are on the dole then you are a beggar, you might not be on the street but you are getting something for nothing. We are not a democracy we are a representative republic, democracy is two wolves and a sheep wondering what to have for dinner, guess who looses, after all it is two wolves voting to eat one sheep, by your logic majority rules and everyone had an equal say.