Sunday, September 29, 2019

Welfare, time for reform

 Mostly people on the left, but some on the right too won't like this. It's time to tighten up welfare. Usually when this is said people mean cutting the rolls. I don't mean that. I don't want to see anyone living on the street. However the state has been far too generous with welfare, and it's time to pinch it down.
 Right now you have welfare people living in apartments with separate kitchen, living room and bedroom. They have free health care, spending money, and food stamps too.
Meanwhile you have mid and low income working people sharing a house with multiple people. They have to share a bathroom, and kitchen, sometimes with over 5 other people. They are often stuck with a high deductible health care plan where if they get sick they have to pay the bill up to whatever the deductible is, which is usually over $1000 dollars. Maybe if they make a little more they get to live in a small studio, nowhere near as nice as what welfare people get for free.
 Who would ever want to get off welfare so they can live in a house stuffed with roommates, and get a crap health care plan to boot?
 The system needs reform. Welfare people should get the same housing college dorm students do. Tiny rooms with communal bathrooms/showers on each floor. Health care could be like an HMO, they could go to a state run clinic that hires doctors on the cheap fresh out of medical school. Free food should be basic staples, it could be distributed at the dorms. Money given out should be minimal, maybe enough for public transportation.
 Anyone who doesn't like this is free to get a job, there is certainly a lot more incentive to do so under that system than there is under the current one.
 "But what about corporate welfare?" Get rid of it. If a company can't float itself without taxpayer money, let it sink.