RE: Walmart throws a bone
February 23, 2015 at 4:22 pm
(This post was last modified: February 23, 2015 at 4:53 pm by Brian37.)
(February 23, 2015 at 3:59 pm)Jenny A Wrote:(February 23, 2015 at 12:33 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: And to clarify, she was GSA, she is getting a US government pension. By displacing a younger poor person she is causing a problem, except when I contemplate the business model Wallyworld has regards letting the government subsidize the shoppers, the products, and customers, and then I think she is saving somebody.
Why should it matter where she gets the pension? If she earned it, it's hers. It isn't a welfare handout, it's part of her compensation for having worked. And I don't see why elderly people would have any less right to work than anyone else. If a young person held two jobs, would you call that double dipping? If that isn't double dipping why would this be double dipping?
Not too terribly long ago the argument was made that a woman with a working husband should be employed because she would displace other workers.
Economics is not a zero sum game. If people are productive at work, the more people working, the larger the pie.
(February 23, 2015 at 12:49 pm)Brian37 Wrote: And even if someone refuses to work, it is still cheaper to house them and feed them than criminalize poverty.
Explain to me how not paying someone who refuses to work is "criminalizing" poverty.
Oh boy, not talking about advocating free rides. I am saying between putting people in desperate situations to the point where they commit crimes it more cost effective to give them housing and food than to put them in prison after they get desperate. I defy you to show me where I am advocating no one work. Utah is doing that FYI.
Poverty and homelessness in this country is treated like a crime rather than a condition. We house the most prisoners in the world and the majority of them are in there for non violent crimes.
