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Should able-bodied, able-minded people who do not have any other obligations and nonetheless refuse to work be entitled to a minimal standard of living, by government support if necessary?
Why are people only looking for jobs in their area?
Um, maybe cause it's too hard tot move somewhere else to find a job? (AKA income, family, education, etc...)
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Originally Posted by hnsq
Why haven't they saved up for a rainy day when they were working, and why aren't they spending a few hours/day in a library studying new skills?
Not everyone had the ability to save up and have it last. I was out of work for almost a year before and we zapped our savings pretty fast due to that. When you go from two incomes to one, it goes fast.
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Originally Posted by FrugalYankee
Put them to work for the town. They can plant flowers, pick up trash, paint public buildings, pull weeds on public property, something to improve the quality if life for all and give them something to do.
In our area, that work is for the inmates of the jail. They go out on road crews everyday to clean up and do outside work. You see them all the time on the side of the road mowing, or picking up trash, and in the parks downtown planting and weeding.
1) Maybe they don't have money and can't afford to move?
2) Maybe they're unskilled?
Victim drivel. Seriously, I have been pretty poor before, and I never, ever just sat down and said, "Oh well, I don't have any skills...Oh well, I don't have any money..."
There are options for everyone, but we have to care enough to look for them.
Should able-bodied, able-minded people who do not have any other obligations and nonetheless refuse to work be entitled to a minimal standard of living, by government support if necessary?
The title should read "other people's money". The government has no money of their own.
And no, someone that can, but chooses not to work, should NOT get MY money.
Savings can disappear very quickly, even if you have quite a bit saved up and have no income to replenish it.
As for the library, you can 'learn' all you want, without proof of learning it (aka, a degree, certification etc.) then you really don't have a chance to prove it. I can go to the library and study helicopter mechanics all day long, but if I don't have the certification nobody is going to hire me as a mechanic.
I'm currently unemployed and I spend a large majority of the day learning new skills and updating my current ones so when the opportunity presents itself (this fall, hopefully) to get new certifications, I can go into the program fresh and ready to go.
I'm not saying it's impossible or that people shouldn't try, but it's not as easy as reading a few books and then *poof* you get a good job.
I don't believe there was anything referenced about it being "easy."
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