Danny and Gina articulate the reasons why it makes no sense for them to work – and makes great sense for them to stay on welfare. They're young (21 and 18, respectively) and have a kid. They live in a nice apartment, they have a big TV, they can afford their main vice (smoking), and they feel no guilt about sponging off the taxpayers (check out their reasoning). If they were to take a job (which they admit would be easy for them to do, even though neither of them has any notable skills), their take-home income would actually go down (because their income would be taxed and their eligibility for welfare reduced). Their reasoning is impeccable. They are absolutely correct – they're better off on welfare than working.
Now of course they could undertake to get the education required to get a better job, and then go compete in the marketplace. Many people (hopefully, most people) would do exactly that. But that's all such a terribly large effort, fraught with the possibility of failure. If, instead, they can just sit at home and rake in the welfare checks – that's ever so much less work and has no risk to themselves at all.
The important elements of this situation are already in place in the U.S., most especially in our large cities. The progressive agenda keeps putting more pieces in place (Obamacare is a huge example). During Clinton's administration significant welfare reform took a big step in the right direction, but the Obama administration and the predominantly Democratic administrations of most of our large cities are rapidly undoing those changes. On our current trajectory, I'd estimate that the U.K. is only 5 to 10 years ahead of us. So we can look forward to our own millions of Danny and Gina, whom the rest of us will support by having the fruits of our own labor stolen from us by “progressive” politicians.
Oh, goody.
Doom...
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