Someone has to pay...

[Thunder_Snus]

The commies over here never paid anybody (not working) who had not been certified by a medical committee as disabled. For those who were there was a scale to define how much disabled they were. E.g. if you got 50%, you still worked, but you were given a specially selected job which could be managed by a person of your type of disability. If you found your own & better, you did that. If you did not, you had to accept the offered employment. My wife (prenatal palsy & epilepsy) worked as a part-time telephone operator. The rest of her income was supplied by partial disability pension from the day she achieved the age of 18.

All the rest had to work to get any money from the government (or "state" as it was called then). There is always some work to do in human society, the problem usually is just the money. But if you pay the money anyway, it seems reasonable to require work in return. Everybody was also given housing; but everybody also had to work. What do you think? Fair? Remember: this must be bad.

Not a bad system if I'm giving fair judgement. I remember my old Polish macro economics teacher said they used to have a saying when he was growing up there "we pretend to work and the government pretends to pay us." Recently in a couple of states here they started requiring you to pass a drug test to receive benefits and it was suddenly "a violation of human rights" which basically meant people wanted to buy drugs but if they were going to buy it they couldn't afford other shit, so they could call it racist/unconstitutional and try to have their way with it. People see welfare as a right not a privledge for those who need it and we continue the system to allow people to view it that way.

[gd3]

I bet for education, of course

[truthwolf1]

Education? I think this seems like a obvious answer but they have been pumping money into schools for decades with nothing but dismal results.

[Thunder_Snus]

Education? I think this seems like a obvious answer but they have been pumping money into schools for decades with nothing but dismal results.

Pumping money doesn't help unless you are allowed to pump a few rulers into a child's knuckles for being a little shit.

There is no incentive to do well in school atleast up until college. No child left behind and poor teacher salaries make it difficult for teachers to teach and they are usually forced to pass a student even if they have a 0 in the class.