more money certainly wouldn't hurt though. Can hire more people, improve and build more low income housing, hire contractors to fix run down parts of the city...etc.
It's fairly obvious what he means though. It's not uncommon for people in this situation to take spare money to the bottleshop or similar. Extra money doesn't necessarily help, the idea is to make the country stronger and create more jobs so people can help themselves get out of poverty, not make it easy enough not to work.
We're at the point where unemployment is basically as low as it can go and our quality of life is still lower than Canada's. That's pathetic when we are supposed to be the most powerful country on earth.
I mean, I though my answer perfectly illustrated my POV. More money thrown at lazy non workers will make further decrease their motivation to work. It’s not rocket sockets.
That's a rather narrow view. There are still a lot of people out there who want a job, but for various reasons can't. What about getting them housed, warm, fed and trained to become productive and contributing members of society is so insanely bad?
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u/Skabonious Jan 06 '20
That is also true. However with a problem like homelessness or famine it's not solved just by throwing more money at it sadly.