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Originally Posted by Wolfy
I will concede that point - it's obviously factually true. However... it's not statistically correct.
Here's what I believe: The majority of people on welfare do not want to work.
Therefore, giving a tax benefit to an employer that hires someone that most likely doesn't want to work in order to stimulate the economy is a farce, because this plan leads to failure.
In other words, Stimulus2 is a farce.
fugheddaboudit.
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There is a big difference between someone who has been on unemployment for 12-18 months after losing their job and someone who has been on welfare for 10 years.
I fully agree that most people who are welfare long term have no desire to work. They have found a way to survive on the system and they are happy to do just that. Those are not the people we are talking about here. The long term unemployed are those who have been out of work more than 9 months and are actively looking for a job not those who have been on welfare for 5 years and have no interest in coming off of it.