Welfare a necessary evil
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Review
February,20, 2014
In this country, we have 92 million people that are not
working. This is nearly
a third of the population. It
amazes me the number of people that get subsidies of some sort from
the government, but are all these social programs really needed?
Today; we live in a society where technology is growing
exponentially, along with the population. With a growing population,
we have more consumers requiring more goods.
However; today with
technology, we can produce more manufactured goods with fewer
people. Are we replacing
ourselves with robots?
Don’t people realize, we have reached the point where we can no
longer economically support the population through the private
sector? There just
aren’t enough jobs for everyone.
During the Great Depression in the 1930’s, people had
something I do not have today; they had hope; they believed that the
economy would get better with time.
You hear how people who get welfare and food stamps become
dependent upon them.
Just about everyone is dependent on social programs either directly
or indirectly. Go to the
grocery store on the day food stamps come out, and see how many
people are spending food stamps.
Is not the grocer dependent on the food stamps to sell
groceries? Without food
stamps the grocer will sell fewer groceries, while his basic
operating cost remains the same.
What is he going to do, raise his prices, or go out of
business? It is the
same way with most social programs it keeps the cost of goods down
for all of us. We all benefit from social programs, but it comes at
a cost; higher taxes. How many hundreds of thousands of dollars are
dumped into Bradford County each month to boost the economy?
For years; man has wanted the oppressed to furnish their
labor for just about nothing.
Egypt had the Israelites to build their pyramids; in this
country we had the African slaves to pick our cotton, and the
Chinese to build the railways across America.
Well; slavery is still alive and doing well in America; we
just call it minimum wage.
I understand that mom and pop businesses really can’t pay
more than minimum wage, and remain competitive with the much larger
corporations, however; the large corporations could pay more. Can
you have a robust economy, when you have millions of adults trying
to live on kid’s wages?
A girl who worked at one of the local department stores told me, the
CEO got a fifteen million dollar bonus.
I did the math; she would have to work for 994 years at
minimum wage to make the same amount of money.
The CEOs of these large corporations are nothing but slave
holders. Each store is
their little plantation, and the people at the bottom of the ladder
are their slaves. The CEOs don’t care; they know the welfare system
will pick up the difference between what they pay, and a livable
wage.
I grew up in the 60’s, and I was taught to work hard, and you
will get places. Today
it is all upside down.
When people are seeking employment, they soon learn working at
minimum wage they lose more than they gain.
Does it make sense to work more and have less, when you can
work less and have more? There
is so much wealth in poverty. You
have thousands of people in this country who are working less to
gain more in subsidies to cover the cost of their health insurance
through Obama Care. The
government doesn’t seem to care. You have people in Congress and
Nancy Pelosi saying, isn’t it a wonderful thing people are working
less to get subsidies to cover their health care cost.
She said, “This will give people more time with their
families, or to pursue their passions in life.”
Are they totally pixilated?
This is all going to come at a great cost to all Americans.
The more we accept from the government the more indebted we are
going to be to the government. The
government is rapidly becoming the company store.
Remember the old song by Tennessee Ernie Ford, 16 Ton, and
the verse, “I owe my soul to the company store.”
Soon we will all be singing this tune.
The government is also caught in the web of this welfare
state they have woven.
There is no way out. The
government must continual these welfare programs, or the economy
will fall apart. Tell me, how can the government ever do away with
these social programs without totally destroying the economy and our
country? But then again;
maybe our government really doesn’t give a damn!
Craig H Pierce
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