It really comes down to being able to make it not working...
The programs are immense once you are plugged in at a major metro area and many fear losing if they were to be employed and for some the fear is real...
One of the single family homes I managed had a woman in her 50's that just completed her Masters 3 years ago with tremendous network of support while on Section 8...
I would ask how the job search was going and the last time she said she is no longer looking... the job offers were 50 to 60k and she said it would have be more like a 100k to make it worth her time... and she is probably right...
Free family Medical, a $3,000 a month single family home with gardener for $150 a month, $10 High Speed Internet, discounted Utilities, Tuition Assistance, Before and After School meals, WIC Food Vouchers, Special Programs for the kids due to low income status... etc.
Just saying it is not a mystery when you do the math.
AND... not to make this Political, but, the Democrats are adding to the numbers with all if the illegal aliens coming in. I'm not against immigrants, pls, but we are getting sssooo many that we are going to collapse our economy very soon.
I know we need to share, God gave us a lot, but when the number of welfare recipients become greater than the people working for a living... something needs to be done about it !
Enough said on a political sense.
I don't blame people for not working when they can get more than work wages, but when you turn down a job because it only pays 60K$, there is a problem.
I was laid off at 50 years of age, (seems like a long time ago), I had to take a job that paid 30K less than I was making because it was the only job a fifty year old quality engineer could get, there was a new revolution in reducing the number of quality people in a company. I did it because I could get by on less money, I got lucky and worked my way back up the money ladder, took on the jobs that were needed to get there.
Back to the OP question, "Why do people not wan to work...(and to add) to get what the need" !
My daughter, God Bless her, works a 32 hour job, for benifits, and two On-Line jobs, one as a "Graphics Designer," creating Web Pages for the Winery Businesses in SoCal, and one as a "Down-Loadable Graphics Company" working with a friend creating graphics that people want and need and let them download them for a price. To me that is really three jobs but she works to get what she wants and needs as most of us did. Why can't others do this... at least help take some of the load off the system.
Ok I'm done both bragging about the daughter and complaining about the Welfare System.
Thanks for reading, God Bless and the United States !
