A person drawing maximum welfare benefits in California could receieve up to $35,166 per year after taxes. The average salary for a first year teacher in California is $41,259 before taxes. After taxes the teacher earns slightly less than a welfare recipient who receives maximum benefits.
If you were a stockholder of a corporation who paid more to unemployed vacrants than they did to their own productive employees, what would you do?
If your brain is functional, you would fire the CEO and the corporation's Board of Directors. The government of the UNITED STATES is a corporation and the President is the CEO and Congress is the Board of Directors.
The government will continue to spend money on things that we don't want, don't need and can't afford. The only way to stop the madness in to fire the entire management team. They are nothing more than a band of corrupt politicians that take their marching orders from a cartel of corrupt financial institutions.
An unemployed individual in California receiving the maximum in welfare benefits can take home the equivalent of $17.83 per hour. An employed worker would need to earn over $21 per hour before taxes to receive as much as someone receiving the maximum in welfare benefits. If the worker earning minimum wages wants to take home over $15 per hour perhaps they should quit their jobs and apply for welfare.
If the owner of a business paid the unemployed people in his community more than he paid is productive employees his business would go bankrupt. The government does the same thing, but they just borrow more money and ask you and me to pick up the tab.
Penalyzing the productive members of society by rewarding the non productive is a recipe for failure.
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You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the industrious out of it.
It is impossible to multiply wealth by dividing it. Government cannot give anything to anybody that it doesn't first take from somebody else.
Whenever somebody receives something without working for it, somebody else has to work for it without receiving.
The worst thing that can happen to a nation is for half of the people to get the idea they don't have to work because somebody else will work for them, and the other half to get the idea that it does no good to work because they don't get to enjoy the fruits of their labor.
That in itself my friend is the end of any nation.
Good comment Keith but I now find that there are a lot of people out there now who are looking for jobs and can't find them..Or if they do find one they are only offered 10.00 an hour, with no benefits, and no security.. Now 10.00 an hour really??? Just who can live on that so they stay on unemployment or welfare. On top of it they are flooding our Country with illegals willing to work for even less and still under the table for cash...
responsibility Kathye that's the right term. Our federal government are now openly declaring war upon the American people. they and their group of assassins have taken over the needs of the people as they have stolen the treasury. Only communities tied into active participation may get out of this one.
today over 25% live without jobs as well as another 20% who work for wages which only provide for food. Now 80 million are on the welfare rolls from just this nation. now in my area we are bringing people in who can establish jobs of meaning but its very difficult to stay under this federal tyrannies radar.
Our purpose is to establish an area of total entrepreneurship. Its the only way to break this iron hand which has been placed upon us. People you elect must be schooled in the art of the republic and to civics under those laws. this is the most difficult.
You see it is us, our parents, our grandparents who just couldn't see the trail or take the time to rearrange the direction this nation was going. So here we are with a full blown Fascist dictatorship.
Where do we the people take this? Are we training ourselves to be able to handle a economic fall of such magnitude that it will make the 1930's look like a picknic?
One must ask themselves what am I prepared to do. this is where we are at today kathye.
People we elect, good try there.... The election process is so jaded and filled with fraud that no one can even begin to figure who , how, and why, they should vote for any one of these people running...The corruption in our Country has gotten disgustedly bad. To top if off they are now trying to bring more law breakers into our Country, through amnesty, who will eventually vote, if they get their way... Then we will be left with nothing but "freeloaders" instead of "FreedomLovers"all voting for their pocketbooks ..Perfect way to destroy a Country from within. The only sane thing for any voter to do is keep voting them all out until things change. That could and probably will take generations they have screwed things up so bad... But wait, then the problem with that is they have rigged the electoral system to work in the "Powers that Be's favor" so the only ones that can afford to run are their buddies and paid puppets, which of course they choose for the running. A truly honest person has very little chance.. Sadly the American citizens are left with absolutely no real choice in our elections so much for checks balances isn't it...These people break our system down just so that it all can be controlled by them from the Local little elections, to the National one's., and everything in between. It is all separated by party affiliation, who can run, who can vote, when and where. They control it all...