11-06-2008, 09:28 PM
I'd rather have a job than a handout, perhaps that's an old fashioned view.
I don't know what it's like there, but here unemployment benefits have done nothing but create a class of people lower than your historical peasant.
They live for their weekly handout, and can survive on it more than adequately, having their eight kids on their council estate just to sap more benefits from the state.
This is why people are getting in such an uproar here about immigrant workers, who'll actually work for peanuts, because they're not used to living in such a baffling situation where they can earn as good as minimum wage by doing nothing at all.
The most virtuous thing a government can do is teach its poor what it means to starve. Then you'll see how much unemployment there really is. Then the government will know how they really need to help. The inert deserve to suffer.
As for increased taxing of the rich, that's absurd. Go and dig up tax burden statistic for whatever part of the world you live in and you'll see that to be so.
I don't know what it's like there, but here unemployment benefits have done nothing but create a class of people lower than your historical peasant.
They live for their weekly handout, and can survive on it more than adequately, having their eight kids on their council estate just to sap more benefits from the state.
This is why people are getting in such an uproar here about immigrant workers, who'll actually work for peanuts, because they're not used to living in such a baffling situation where they can earn as good as minimum wage by doing nothing at all.
The most virtuous thing a government can do is teach its poor what it means to starve. Then you'll see how much unemployment there really is. Then the government will know how they really need to help. The inert deserve to suffer.
As for increased taxing of the rich, that's absurd. Go and dig up tax burden statistic for whatever part of the world you live in and you'll see that to be so.