The thing that gets me about statistics like this (assuming the information is accurate, and coming from partisan news sources, it often isnt) is, of the 51 jurisdictions listed, 34 of them provide assistance that has more value than a 40-hour-per-week, minimum wage job. But then the same people that get mad about it oppose increasing the minimum wage. The welfare doesnt need cutting. It has been the way it is, through nearly twenty years of Republican administrations and Republican-dominated houses of Congresses (each of whom, when they were in control, had ample opportunities to cut it) because to allow people to suffer from a lower standard of living is unconscionable. (Besides, if youve ever had to live on unemployment and food stamps ..yourself.., then you know its ..not.. a comfortable existence.) Yet, that lower standard of living is what you earn if you ..work.. at a job that pays less than $15-20 . . . So, what do you expect what we politely refer to the transfer-payment population to do? Even they have ..some.. math schools, despite our crummy schools . . . Where do I get angry? I hate to see people who do the right thing and work at whatever they can get, even a crappy hourly job, penalized and made chumps of.
Posted on: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 22:40:16 +0000
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