Posted: Jun 10, 2013 6:58 am
The welfare check usually goes to paying the rent, buying food and other common consumer goods people need, like toothpaste, toiletpaper, shampoo, new socks etc. etc. Thus, it is demonstrably true that welfare finds it way directly back into the economy. At least in somewhat well-functioning welfare states. Of course, everyone knows america is kinda fucked in this respect.
It's exactly the purpose of welfare to keep people alive under sufficiently good living conditions, that they don't die in the streets or turn to crime to provide for themselves if they are without a job. In Denmark, when you're on welfare you're put into "activation", which simply means you work for your welfare check. You get a "job" the local authorities provide you and you have to attend and if you stay away, you don't get your check.
It would work pretty well if it weren't for the fact that a lot of private companies have figured out that they can offer this kind of "employment" to welfare recipients, dangling the prospect of a real job in front of their faces for months on end, only then to suddenly turn around and "decide they don't fit the job", forcing the welfare recipient to find another such fake "job"(where this process then repeats) and try to get a foot in the door, meanwhile the local autorities just sends more welfare recipients to that private company to work for them while the government pays them. And on it goes...
Way to go, private employers.. nothing better than taking advantage of a perfectly reasonable welfare system. Pieces of shit.
It's exactly the purpose of welfare to keep people alive under sufficiently good living conditions, that they don't die in the streets or turn to crime to provide for themselves if they are without a job. In Denmark, when you're on welfare you're put into "activation", which simply means you work for your welfare check. You get a "job" the local authorities provide you and you have to attend and if you stay away, you don't get your check.
It would work pretty well if it weren't for the fact that a lot of private companies have figured out that they can offer this kind of "employment" to welfare recipients, dangling the prospect of a real job in front of their faces for months on end, only then to suddenly turn around and "decide they don't fit the job", forcing the welfare recipient to find another such fake "job"(where this process then repeats) and try to get a foot in the door, meanwhile the local autorities just sends more welfare recipients to that private company to work for them while the government pays them. And on it goes...
Way to go, private employers.. nothing better than taking advantage of a perfectly reasonable welfare system. Pieces of shit.