Why can't we require unemployed people to work in exchange for government "benefits" (handouts)? (how much, politician)

[yspobo]

Originally Posted by RamenAddict

Under normal circumstances, able bodied adults without children typically do have to volunteer or work part-time to be eligible for SNAP benefits unless they are in areas with high unemployment.

They still do. And if they apply everywhere and no one offers them a position then they still are cut off to starve. Around here, before covid, there were many people applying for volunteer spots and more people than positions. Now, a lot of the positions were shut down for the restrictions. So people were getting cut off food stamps for noncompliance because they were forced out of the positions.

[No_Recess]

Originally Posted by Frank DeForrest

Why do want there to be handouts?

You need a reason to rob a bank to make it moral...apparently.

Statist logic 101.

[elvis44102]

Originally Posted by hawkeye2009

Would you want any of those individuals working for you or attempting to build anything you might use?

We have created generational bums with no education, no skills, no initiative, and no work ethic.

As long as there are federal handouts encouraging people not to work, we will be plagued by a large, permanently dependent segment of the population.

many things are now mechanized as well unless you want to say make little rocks out of big rocks....


the English did have a serious look at making near useless jobs to occupy people during the great depression...it was not adopted for what ever reason


with more and more automation this is an issue whose time has come....4 day work week? as some commie European country do?

[LLCNYC]

Originally Posted by erieguy

Because that would hurt their feelings and interrupt their days of waiting for the mail carrier.

Lol. +1.

[Ceece]

Some people just don't have the intelligence to work, sad to say

[erieguy]

Originally Posted by Ceece

Some people just don't have the intelligence to work, sad to say

Unfortunately, many have no ambition and prefer to let working folks take care of them, sad to say.

[greywar]

Sooo.....a slave class effectively?

[erieguy]

Originally Posted by greywar

Sooo.....a slave class effectively?

Nope, it’s simply working for a living versus having taxpayers support them.

[eddie gein]

Originally Posted by thriftylefty

I also think any program like that is going to be rife with graft and coruption.

While true, it still might be worthwhile. If for no other reason in order to hear the conservatives go from screaming about how these people don't work to screaming about how they "don't work" when they are working in these programs. Plus we get to hear them whining about the lazy government administrators of said program. It'd be great.

[natalie469]

Child care is a major cost and part of the problem.