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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BUncirculated, post: 1491066, member: 29581&quot;]However, we have that existing in our society right now. How many people you know, or live in your community, are collecting public assistance, or welfare as many know it as, for more than 5, or 10 years, even longer? I have classmates, who strived for nothing better than a welfare check, foodstamps, medicaid and getting their rent paid by hard working taxpayers. Many of them know of nothing else as their parents did the same, stayed at home while the tax dollars paid their way.</p><p><br /></p><p>Would they not be considered having no income and/or no prospects for productive work? They receive only the bare necessaties FOR the necessaties, and our Government seems to be okay with this as they continually increase the state aid which funds the county PA budgets to continue paying for these people to do nothing. </p><p><br /></p><p>Think back to the depression years of the 30s. Roosevelt could have asked Congress to pass needed legislation for funding unemployment compensation for the millions out of work because of the economy tanking. However, he(Roosevelt) saw this would be an inaffective measure only to make matters worse, as did his predecessor Herbert Hoover, POTUS when the financial markets crashed in 1929. </p><p><br /></p><p>Instead, Roosevelt invested in the economy by creating jobs to put Americans back to work. By 1935, the unemployment rate, though still high by today&#039;s standards, was cut nearly in half. </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s highly possible that by Government keeping the dole going out regularly this is playing a part in keeping the lower class, or poverty level people where they are BECAUSE of the dole.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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