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This is like the thread I created a few weeks ago, where I stated that conservatives think people need to be in squalor to have any "motivation" to work. And the responses here are bearing that out.....
To think otherwise is to deny human nature. This does not automatically mean that Conservatives feel that truly deserving people needing help shouldn't get it, just the people who have the ability and the opportunity to pull themselves out of a bad situation and don't take advantage of it.
The conservatives want to create more jobs for the people that want them, instead of taking handouts. Liberals consider themselves successful by keeping them in need of handouts. It's their way of buying votes. This is the liberal understanding of human nature, and how it can benefit them(the liberals).
To think otherwise is to deny human nature. This does not automatically mean that Conservatives feel that truly deserving people needing help shouldn't get it, just the people who have the ability and the opportunity to pull themselves out of a bad situation and don't take advantage of it.
The conservatives want to create more jobs for the people that want them, instead of taking handouts. Liberals consider themselves successful by keeping them in need of handouts. It's their way of buying votes. This is the liberal understanding of human nature, and how it can benefit them(the liberals).
Creating low-wage jobs has not eliminated handouts to low-wage workers. Low-wage jobs arguably exacerbate the shortage of housing affordable to low-wage workers.
I think the quality of housing projects should incentivize people to desperately want to get out of them.
Means-tested programs have resource or asset limits which are fairly low. A parent living in Section 8 housing might need a few thousand dollars to move into unsubsidized housinng - first, last, deposit, etc. And a few thousand dollars might exceed the resource limit and thereby make the parent ineligible for Section 8 assistance. Plus there's the issue of coming up with that money in the first place.
Many of us came from very humble beginnings. We worked our way out of them by doing 2 jobs and sacrificing. Not everyone has the mental and physical stamina to do it. Many simply feel it is owed to them. Drive by a low income housing development and be prepared to be shocked. ATVs, boats, late model cars and the small yards littered with trash. That's what I see when I drive by the ones near where I live. Satellite dishes on every unit. Screens broken out and A/C units hanging out of the windows.
Should we be footing the bill for people who can afford boats, ATVs, Satellite service and late model cars? Maybe a little more oversight is in order.
My friend has a job doing the maintenance at the one in my town. Those people don't even have to shovel their own snow. Window screens are replaced constantly. Walls require patching constantly. Keeps him employed and disgusted.
When you don't have to pay for your home you don't really respect or appreciate it. Now to be fair, most folks living in those places are honest, working people who just need some help. No harm no foul on them. Then there are the single mother families and mom keeps popping babies out every other year. It's interesting to see the people living in low income opening the bar at 7 am. Can't hold a job, have no money, but can keep the bar in business.
They should only get a cot and one meal a day at taxpayer expense.
a meal, why a meal? just a cot in a tent, in a old football fielld
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