Why welfare keeps poor people poor

[Peter1469]

Why welfare keeps poor people poor

It creates a cycle of dependency. It also creates a large dem voter base.

Our welfare system discourages work. It discourages families from staying together. And it encourages dependence on government.

We Lost the War on Poverty: Why Welfare Keeps Poor People Poor


When President Lyndon Johnson launched his War on Poverty in the 1960s, he pledged to eliminate poverty in America.


More than five decades, several welfare programs, and $25 trillion later, the welfare system has utterly failed the poor.


The poverty rate remains mostly unchanged, and tens of millions of Americans are dependent on government assistance.


Currently, the United States spends about a trillion dollars a year on 80 different federal, state, and local welfare programs.


About 40 million Americans are considered poor. If we divided that $1 trillion among those 40 million people, we could give each person approximately $25,000 a year, or $100,000 a year for a family of four.


We’re clearly spending a lot of money, so why have we not ended poverty?


Our welfare system discourages work. It discourages families from staying together. And it encourages dependence on government.
In other words, welfare keeps the poor poor.


In many cases, welfare has harmed the very people it was supposed to help, especially children.


Why has this happened?

Read the rest at the link.

[stjames1_53]

Why welfare keeps poor people poor

It creates a cycle of dependency. It also creates a large dem voter base.



Read the rest at the link.

and it has become a generational thing

[Lummy]

and it has become a generational thing

You mean traditional?

[stjames1_53]

You mean traditional?

yep, I knew a family in Fort Wayne In that had three generations living under one roof collecting all kinds of free goodies. Since it was free to them, there was no incentive to do for themselves.

[donttread]

Why welfare keeps poor people poor

It creates a cycle of dependency. It also creates a large dem voter base.



Read the rest at the link.

One area of progress with this is the ACA. Before that many people lost medical for their kids by doing what we want them to do and working more or hard enough to get better jobs.

[Cotton1]

yep, I knew a family in Fort Wayne In that had three generations living under one roof collecting all kinds of free goodies. Since it was free to them, there was no incentive to do for themselves.

That is a prime example of the generational nature of Learned Helplessness .

[Cotton1]

and it has become a generational thing

It has also became a cultural issue. In the South the blacks are teaching the Mexicans and po whites how to play the system. As a result now you see different colors of fat chicks pushing fat babies with a white in the mix in occasion. Black guys love fat white women. Fat white women are like " you mean I get to feel loved without giving up my 5 pie a day habit? Well...hell to da yea

[Chris]

It makes sense in terms of incentives. Welfare keeps you at a level where you get by. If you try to get ahead a little and start earning more, you lose welfare and can't get by. This is the basis of Basic Income where everyone gets a basic amount and you don't lose it if you make a little or a lot more.

[Cotton1]

It makes sense in terms of incentives. Welfare keeps you at a level where you get by. If you try to get ahead a little and start earning more, you lose welfare and can't get by. This is the basis of Basic Income where everyone gets a basic amount and you don't lose it if you make a little or a lot more.

So..."basic income". .it would diminish the ambition to take risks , it would lower the desire to educate oneself to the max , it would average down those superior to make them closer to the genetically inferior (everyone gets a ribbon lol). It would increase the need for capital aka > units. In turn the > units would dilute existing currency aka inflation which creates an even greater demand for units ...taxes. Even the tooth fairy has to crunch the numbers. With less incentive to create, less incentive to take risks etc fewer tax revenues. Boom back to reality. Chris...you pm me your expertise and I cannot guarentee you anything but I will be willing to wager I can direct your talents into something to turn your current peers into your ball lickers. Money isn't hard to make. The hard part is actually believing and understanding that. If you arent queasy about stepping on a few heads to climb a ladder while in the same breath riding the correct coattails and making the ones riding your coattails useful you are on your way. Its not about doing it. It's about those in your proximity understanding you will do it if needed. You know how many awesome resumes handed to me by incredibly brilliant people were passed on to the top of the company food chain by me? ZERO. why would I create my own competition? Show me a loser. I'll be sure hes hired. When he flame out or I shove him out the door I get his leftover accounts. Know how many sales calls I made as a broker? Practically none. I was the king dik because I made sure of it. The rest were referrals.

[BenjaminO]

Just wait until the conservative christians overturn Roe V Wade.
You ain't seen nothing yet.