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From: kiessig@idi.UUCP (Rick Kiessig)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Unemployment & the minimum wage
Message-ID: <223@idi.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 23-Jul-84 03:23:37 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 23 03:23:37 1984
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The point isn't that people don't know what's better for them -
given a choice, people will nearly always choose an easier path
over a more difficult one.  Re: welfare, the choice is either
to get a job or collect free money from the government.  From
an individual's point of view, they will clearly accept the
free money if getting a job is more difficult.  In their minds,
that is "better".  However, in the long run this may not at all
be true.  It's my opinion that if people were forced to work
for a living, we would be on the road to eliminating poverty
in this country.  As long as there is a path that allows people
to exist without working, it will be used.  The argument that
taking away welfare somehow takes away one's freedom of choice
is simply stupid.  That's like saying that taking away drugs
from an addict interferes with their freedom to choose
what's right for themselves.

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Rick Kiessig
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