Loading ...My understanding on Social Security is/was that you and your employer both paid into your Social Security. It required a minimum of 40 quarters (10 years) contributions in order to draw any benefits when you reach retirement age, but you earned the right to Social Security benefits when you retire. A major flaw of the program is that the gov cheats on the annual inflation rate adjustments making it more difficult every year to live on your Social Security.
Unemployment Ins worked similarly. Both employee and employer paid into UI so in the event you became unemployed and were unable to find employment within a reasonable amount of time UI would kick in to keep you going for certain limits as long as you were actively looking for employment. Again, this was a program that was paid for by both employee and employer and should not be considered welfare since you earned the right to draw it when needed.
Welfare or foodstamps?? What ever happened to “a days work for a days pay“?? As others have stated, there are generations of people who have never worked a day in their life. They simply hold out their hand and a benevolent gov fills it with money. No need to stand in line for it. No need to get out of bed to get it. I guess they do have to still go shopping for their groceries but I would bet a lot of them opt for home delivery and still don’t have to even get dressed to receive it. Now as I understand it they all have a card that will cover their food needs so even those in front and behind them in the checkout line have no idea they are receiving welfare or foodstamps. Do these people deserve to be treated the same as those who get up every day, go to work, earn their wages, scrimp and save to make ends meet???? or do they deserve to be shamed just a little so they have some incentive to get off their asses and off of welfare and off of foodstamps and do something for what they get????????
What ever happened to a days work for a days pay??? Yeah, I’m repeating myself….but nobody…..NOBODY, deserves a free ride through life. No matter what the circumstances almost everyone in this world is capable of doing something. Even if it is menial. I recall in the Army when there was slack time one GI would fill a wheel barrow with shit, another would haul it across the compound and dump it in a pile. Then another GI would load it back onto the wheel barrow and another would haul it back again. Was it productive?? Hell no!! But the point was everybody did something for what they got….and if you didn’t like it you could use your own ingenuity to get assigned to something else like guard duty or KP or driver training or whatever to improve your status. Well, the same idea needs to be used for this world of freeloaders. A days work for a days pay. No work, no pay, no food….your choice. You don’t like it, do something about it or starve. Your choice!! but no more free ride!!
Once in my youth I was fired from a job due to a back injury suffered on the job, but I had not worked long enough to be in the union so was let go. I applied for UI, drew it for 2 weeks but had to submit so much paperwork as to all the places I had applied for work and why I had not been able to find work that I never went back for another UI check. That is the only time in my working life that I ever used the system, even though I qualified to use it many times over the years. Personal pride always prohibited me from using it.
The same thing has to happen to all these welfare people who have never done anything for what they are getting. A days work for a days pay or starve. It’s up to you!! And no, I’m not talking about that disabled person who can contribute nothing toward his/her sustenance. But it’s time to get the other 99.999999999% of the bums off the dole and make them do a days work for a days pay………. Rant over………………Silverngold