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In article <CyEDEy.3sCz@austin.ibm.com> johniac@austin.ibm.com (John Iacoletti) writes:
>In article <38p7ll$4fr@news.utdallas.edu>, goyal@utdallas.edu (Mohit K Goyal) writes:
>|> I was referring to welfare alone, not all those other items you mentioned.
>Of course they do.  I need for YOU to pay me 100K a year for doing nothing.
>When can I expect my check?  Of course I don't really WANT it or anything.

Yes, we've all seen the abuses of welfare on the TV news magazines, which are
appalling, but consider this:  

Our country and our economic success depends significantly on the service
industry. By the service industry I mean those jobs that we so flippantly call
"dead end" and "menial": burger flippers, maids, physical laborers, janitors,
maintenance people, delivery truck drivers, etc., etc., etc. 

What do these people get paid?  Minimum wage, maybe a little more if they
are lucky. 

Are the wages enough to live on?  No. 

Do these people get health care etc, at work? Some do, many don't.

So, our economy needs these people to survive, but we have decided not to pay
them enough to live on. They get the rest of what they need to survive from
welfare. 

My guess is that private enterprise loves the welfare system, because it
allows them to pay low wages and maximize profits.  The middle class, who pays
the bulk of the taxes that support welfare, get's to make up the salaries that
business should be paying these people in the first place.  

I'd love to see minimum wages raised so people in the above mentioned jobs
could get off welfare, but business would just pass that on to consumers. 
Looks like the middle class is going to pay no matter what happens.

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