Lazy or smart?

Comment: Lazy mothers that depend on a check once a month is the worst woman in the world. What do they do all day? On their cell phones, getting their nails and hair done and their kids look a dirty mess. It’s so easy to get dependent on a check that comes once a month. It make them LAZY. Their kids are at school all day mothers can get up and find a job and don’t have to worry about a sitter. I think things need to change cause I’m a tax payer and I don’t like paying for them to just sit on the butts and collect money and not even be productive. I hope things change. Would it be so bad to force them to find a job? I don’t think so.

Michelle

Response: Your point about expecting productivity from able-bodied, employable persons is right on. That is the reason this ComingTogether Plan will get rid of “means testing,” which penalizes those who do want to improve their situation. Are you sure this person is lazy? It could be simply that she has figured out it will cost her too much to get a job. The “safety net” we have built to sustain the poor has become a spider web — trapping those being “helped” by taking away benefits too rapidly when people begin to get income from working. Maybe she has done the math and found there is no reason to work.

It sounds as if you are concerned that people will just be lazy knowing that monthly support is coming. Yes, that is probably true for some, but freedom often includes the freedom to make poor choices. Our belief is that the ComingTogether Plan would reduce this behavior because people would be inspired by the improved living standard from even small amounts of work. Once this is discovered, they will try working more to get more of the good things in life.

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