Welfare & Society

Gevlon over at the Greedy Goblin blog made a great post today.

Check it out: http://greedygoblin.blogspot.com/2011/08/i-told-you.html

This guy knows his stuff with regards to the welfare system. I agree with his reasoning.

Here's a few choice quotes:


"If you get $5K/year for nothing, you won't work for $10K. It's not laziness, simply maximizing utility. People want "fun" at the end, so if the "fun" gained by the salary (a car, a travel, a big TV, better meal) is lower than the "fun" lost by the job (you are away from friends since you are at work, you must go bed early, you can't drink, boss is mean, job is dirty), it's the right choice to refuse employment."

"As the employment rate drops, the "welfare party" gets more and more voters, gets more and more power, giving out more and more welfare. The higher welfare makes more jobs unfillable. With $5K/year welfare, you can get workers for $15K. If the welfare gets to $10K/year, you can't. This speeds up unemployment, increasing the power of the "welfare party" even more. It's also important, that with the increased number of welfare leeches, the social stigma of being one diminishes."

His solution is something that makes a lot of sense.... people on welfare should have the same rights as children do.

Technically, they're being supported by the government - you could call them "children of the government."

By restricting their right to vote, you'd also give them a strong motivation to gain employment and "grow up."