Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles; site ea.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!ea!mwm From: mwm@ea.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Unemployment & the minimum wage - (nf) Message-ID: <10100064@ea.UUCP> Date: Mon, 23-Jul-84 19:30:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ea.10100064 Posted: Mon Jul 23 19:30:00 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 27-Jul-84 09:12:01 EDT References: <215@idi.UUCP> Lines: 26 Nf-ID: #R:idi:-21500:ea:10100064:000:1106 Nf-From: ea!mwm Jul 23 18:30:00 1984 #R:idi:-21500:ea:10100064:000:1106 ea!mwm Jul 23 18:30:00 1984 /***** ea:net.politics / fisher!david / 6:16 pm Jul 20, 1984 */ >........................Not only is welfare a disencentive to work, but >it lowers the quality of life to those who accept it. At least people who >survived and were poor one hundered years ago had a feeling of self-worth; >they were survivors. What do the poor have today but an intimate knowledge >of the correct government agency to apply for money to? Most people know what is in their own best interests, and this includes the poor, too. Most who are eligable for welfare accept it, demonstrating their judgment that they are better off with it than without it. David Rubin {allegra|astrovax|princeton}!fisher!david /* ---------- */ Dave, you missed a *very* important phrase "those who survived". The poor are demonstrating what you claim - they think they're better of on welfare than dead. I don't know whether this is true, but I don't blame them for thinking so. I do think that Bryan is correct, in that those poor who hacked it without welfare would be better off than they are now. Also a lot less numerous.