03Lightningrocks wrote:gringo pistolero wrote:If they would cut welfare and the other entitlements that dominate the budget, maybe it would make a dent.
But then the voters who are locked into voting for the socialist party would have to get a job. It is much nicer to sit on your butt in front of the TV while the rest of us pay your bills. The government maintains its power over the people by making the people dependent upon them for their very survival.
You got me thinking about something: if they didn't pay these people to sit around, they indeed would have to get jobs...except there are no jobs for those sort of folks to do because the minimum wage prices unskilled people out of the market. Not to mention, all of our business-strangling regulations and taxes keep companies from wanting to expand, or make it hard for entrepreneurs to start new companies. If they didn't pay these people to sit around, I wonder what the REAL unemployment figure would be?
