Universal Basic Income

[sarg123]

Living in poverty is a choice. In the USA you can be as poor or as wealthy as you choose, nobody takes that away from you. I look at my parents, they still live in poverty to this day and have their entire lives. They continue to make poor decisions over and over again which keeps them poor. Also they are rewarded for being poor. Every month their church or family gives them money. They come up with some sob story about what happened and people give them money. They have become dependant on handouts. I personally hated growing up poor, and I did everything I could to get as far away from it as possible. I made the conscious choice to put all of my effort into getting away from a life in poverty. Everything I have achieved was done on my own and I never had handouts to help me. You can become anything you want to be as long as you put your mind to it. What gets rewarded gets repeated and I see this with poor people. The best thing you can do to a poor person is to stop giving them food and money. They then learn much quicker how to take care of themselves. I always laugh when I go to a park and it says don't feed the animals as they become dependent on humans for food, the same happens with people. If someone chooses to be poor let them, but don't take money away from people who choose not to be poor to reward the same dumb decisions that poor people make.

It almost seems silly to create a post just to say that I agree, but your post was so on target that I couldn't resist! I agree!

But, only up to a point. I think that there has to be some kind of safety net... you can't let people starve. I don't know how to create the right balance - and I'm glad that's not my job!