So I missed yesterday's post because I got sent home to deal with my Septic system. Turns out, I shouldn't have worried. Hopefully it happens today. Unfortunately, I have duty so I will not be able to be there and my wife will have to take care of it. She worries about it, but I think she will do fine.
As I was looking at various things, I came to the conclusion that there is something fundamentally wrong with politicians. How else do you explain the idea that in order to save money, you cut pay and wages from working people (military, federal workers, etc) in order to maintain pay to those not working (welfare, jobless benefits, etc.) Don't get me wrong, I think that these programs are necessary to a point, but to justify cutting pay from those who work and not to those that don't at the same time is ludicrous. We cut jobs for the sake of savings only to have those whose jobs we cut end up on unemployment and other costly programs as they search for jobs to replace the job we cut to save money.
Now comes the fun part. I was always taught that if you don't have a solution or aren't willing to discuss one, don't bring up the problem. So here goes. I say put the people on welfare to work. Set up day care that is open only to those on welfare and staff it with those on welfare. Next, put those who now have free time to work in jobs appropriate to their physical abilities. If they don't know how to do the job, they get trained. If they don't want to work, they don't get welfare. I can hear some of you saying, "what about those who are disabled?" I didn't say anything about those on disability, I said welfare. But they can work too. There are phones that need answered, data that needs inputted, etc. There are jobs out there for all disability levels. Just as there are jobs out there for all ability levels. Streets need cleaned, ditches need dug, parks need mowed. Fences need built. Fences need painting. Trees need planting. I could go on and on. But we continually complain about those on welfare and the job market. But no one wants to do the jobs that are available, either because the job is not at their particular "skill level" or because it doesn't pay as well. I think that if you gave people a choice of working for their welfare and unemployment checks on these needed government jobs that they would either work or get off of welfare.
The other side of this is that the work we are either not doing or contracting out at exhorbant rates would get done rather cheaply. One other thing to throw out there. Because they are working and may actually want to better themselves, you put into place a policy that gives them the freedom to job hunt while doing the work. What I mean is, you give them the flexibility of schedule that allows them to better themselves. If they want, you give them the option of going to school on the governments dime with the agreement that they will stop getting welfare in 5 years. This gives them the time to get a degree and another year for the following job search. Once they sign up and take money, there is no turning back. They are off of welfare regardless of whether they finished school or not. Of course this means we supply tutoring, but in the long run, it saves us a ton of money.
This is all my opinion and you can take it however you want, but we have a problem here in the US and it is a selfish problem. No one wants to take responsibility for themselves. Everyone wants the government to provide for their comfort. And it does, as long as you are willing to claim that you can't do anything else and throw everything away and start over. Do that and you will find that you can live pretty well on the government dime. Especially if you combine programs properly. If you give something to someone for Free without any end in sight, you find that there is no reason for them to take a risk and get off of it.
Thanks for reading and, as always, have a great day.
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