No, the welfare system isn't making people lazy.


If that were the case, we'd be seeing a labor shortage right now.  Which we're clearly not seeing. 


Businesses would be needing to attract employees by offering higher wages if we had a labor shortage.  We don't have that, so obviously wages aren't being driven up.  For every job opening, there's at least 3 job seekers looking for that job.  


Not sure why you can label those people as 'lazy' so easily.  You certainly don't know most people who are on welfare, and you might know a few of the lazy ones.  But to judge an entire group off of a minority of that group is ridiculous.  It'd be like judging Jags fans on Jungle Cat.

 

I mean, sure.  You could make the jobless more desperate for a job by cutting out their 'entitlements'.  Then some of them will turn to crime (which will increase crime rates), others will just starve (Yay?)  while others might create their own jobs (but the majority won't)  

 

"Oh but they're communities will help them!" you say.  


So why aren't they already?  Because of taxes?  I mean that's kind of guessing.  "If we lower taxes, people will be more willing to help out!"  Or.... they'll save their money.  Or spend it on themselves.  We live in a 1st world country, and yet 1 in 6 Americans are food insecure.  Surely if the communities were helping out, that number would be much lower.  I mean 1 in 10 would be progress.


I've known a lot of people who needed federal assistance.  People who weren't fortunate to have family that would help them, and would have starved without it.   I'd say Welfare is far from a 'bad thing'.    

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