2020 dem pres pick

Originally Posted by shawndoggy

I don't know anyone on welfare, but I've certainly known people who have been laid off and collecting unemployment who haven't pursued less than perfect jobs because to do so would mean that they no longer get unemployment checks. I think the means testing of welfare is the same... get a job that pays too much and you lose all benefits. That's a pretty perverse disincentive to seeiking work.

Happens every day. I knew plenty of people who were on welfare. We technically qualified but did not take it growing up.

This happens to also be the unintended (or maybe intended) consequence of welfare that it has destroyed the family unit. I don't think you realize the position these people are in where they will purposely have kids to get more checks and make sure their is never a man in the house so they continue to qualify for benefits. The effect (while I am sure it is complicated) is the black community when from around 25% single parent homes to over 70%. Now we have generational problems such as drug addition, gang violence, and a large population who are in now way shape of form ready to contribute to society in a positive way.