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Are you waiting for the government to get you a job? A home? Security? Anything? Government can't fix your life any more than it can fix the VA. Sadly, the people who need to hear this message will avoid it like the plague while the others, those who take responsibility for their lives, will nod their heads sadly in unison with me.
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Of course government can get you all that you mentioned. Join the Army
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Unfortunately, that is the society our government has created. People run to the Federal Government to "fix" their needs and wants. When you feed a power hungry, narcissist machine and ask them to fix your problems, you are going to get a way to large Federal Government who no longer cares about 'fixing' your problems, but to make you even more dependent on it.
I will use myself as an example. When my oldest son was a baby (1994), I was only working part-time (20 hours per week) as a cook, making $6.25 and hour. I went to the welfare office so I could get some assistance with my electric bill. They to told me that the only way they could help me is if I cut my hours to 10 hours per week and then they could help me with rent, bills, food and etc. I told them I just needed help with my electric and they told me that I worked to many hours. I left.
So you see, if they get people to become totally dependent on the government (and are okay with that), they can 'fix' anything they want, as they have that proverbial carrot hanging in front of them until they decide to go out and do something for themselves.
I will use myself as an example. When my oldest son was a baby (1994), I was only working part-time (20 hours per week) as a cook, making $6.25 and hour. I went to the welfare office so I could get some assistance with my electric bill. They to told me that the only way they could help me is if I cut my hours to 10 hours per week and then they could help me with rent, bills, food and etc. I told them I just needed help with my electric and they told me that I worked to many hours. I left.
So you see, if they get people to become totally dependent on the government (and are okay with that), they can 'fix' anything they want, as they have that proverbial carrot hanging in front of them until they decide to go out and do something for themselves.
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Over the short term a ladder costs a lot more money than a safety net from which people have a hard time escaping. Over the long term ladders that most people can climb will wind up costing tax payers a lot less money.
We live in a country where sustaining that safety net is about all even progressives hope to be able to fund, it isn't enough. The goal of assistance should be to push people toward self-sufficiency even if that means paying for training or supplementing wages until that person can survive on their own without assistance.
What we need is a Welfare office that would have told you that you would receive x amount for six months, and that your ability to receive assistance for another six months would depend on your willingness to complete training. Training should have been oriented toward getting you a job that would pay enough that you didn't need assistance. We don't do that... even though it could reduce the number of unemployed and/or needing assistance over the long term.
We live in a country where sustaining that safety net is about all even progressives hope to be able to fund, it isn't enough. The goal of assistance should be to push people toward self-sufficiency even if that means paying for training or supplementing wages until that person can survive on their own without assistance.
What we need is a Welfare office that would have told you that you would receive x amount for six months, and that your ability to receive assistance for another six months would depend on your willingness to complete training. Training should have been oriented toward getting you a job that would pay enough that you didn't need assistance. We don't do that... even though it could reduce the number of unemployed and/or needing assistance over the long term.
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To some extent! But we as Americans we have to invest in ourselves and in our Children!
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SP5 Christine Conley I'm saying that socialism only perverts the corruption and makes it worse. Limited government and simplicity are what restrains corporate pressure on government. Small Government is the solution. Donald Trump is a prime example of why the Federal Government shouldn't have this much control, he unashamedly boasts about how he paid off the democratic base in New York in the name of imminent domain. State Governments are bad enough. True Capitalism is the solution to the crony capitalism we have today.
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