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Re:What If There Just Aren’t Enough Jobs to Go Around? by fineIllregister on Thursday July 21, 2016 @06:08PM (#12140435)
What "welfare" are you talking about? I don't know of any social assistance in my state that goes to individuals who can work but aren't working. Medicare would be close, but in practice that's very difficult to qualify for, and covering health care is a far cry from "pay[ing] them to play video games."
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Re:What If There Just Aren’t Enough Jobs to Go Around? by yummyfajitas on Friday July 22, 2016 @01:33AM (#12141893)
Widespread disability fraud is one way.

http://apps.npr.org/unfit-for-work/

The fact is that the poor aren't working yet they are consuming.

http://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publication...

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Re:What If There Just Aren’t Enough Jobs to Go Around? by vkou on Thursday July 21, 2016 @06:28PM (#12140501)
If they aren't supported by the state, they are supported by their families.
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Re:What If There Just Aren’t Enough Jobs to Go Around? by fineIllregister on Thursday July 21, 2016 @06:54PM (#12140616)
I don't see how that's a relevant response to my comment, as it doesn't answer my question. It's not really a matter of public policy, unless you're suggesting we some how legally prevent people from supporting family members who aren't working.
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Re:What If There Just Aren’t Enough Jobs to Go Around? by vkou on Friday July 22, 2016 @12:35PM (#12144643)
My point was that even if the state doesn't pay someone to sit around, and play video games all day, in a high-unemployment economy, family members will. Either that, or the person in question dies homeless.
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Re:What If There Just Aren’t Enough Jobs to Go Around? by 2k03kv4r5p on Thursday July 21, 2016 @09:18PM (#12141130)
I think the implied answer here is you increase taxes, thereby funding the jobs for unemployed people and also making it harder for families to afford to support the unemployed.
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