So what are YOUR responsibilities, if the government is supposed to take care of all these trifles?
Your responsibility in this situation is to improve yourself until you have the skills to be a taxpaying member of society. That's why Trump wants to add the part-time work or volunteer condition for the able-bodied to continue getting EBT.
A lot of the able-bodied people who are on EBT right now are completely unemployable, with no job skills or work ethic. You wouldn't want them working at your job, that's for sure. Imagine somebody like Chris-chan suddenly appearing at the desk next to yours. Imagine hiring him to work at your small business. Horrifying, right? No sane employer would hire him. A lot of these people are like him.
If these useless people are forced to volunteer somewhere, they can learn the work ethic they need to get a real job without imposing their uselessness on a small employer or taking a job that someone useful and employable actually wants. If they get a part-time job, they can get the skills and experience they need to get a real job. If they get their EBT cut off even for a week, they'll be clamoring for volunteer positions.
Since everybody is so worried about who's going to pick the crops, I suggest that becomes a volunteer position. Shaniqua's got 6 kids? Good, she can work part-time or volunteer at a daycare. All those jobs that migrants aren't doing any more, the ones "white people refuse to do"? Welcome to the world of the employed, NEETS. We've got construction, we've got slaughterhouses, we've got landscaping and lawn care, and now McDonald's is suddenly hiring because Consuela just left town in a big cold van.
Offer the employers a small incentive to take these people on and train them how to work, say, 15% of their pay for the first year and an additional 5% lump sum bonus if they make it for a year, then the subsidy is over. Or waive their payroll tax on eligible employees, give them SOMETHING, because damn, these people are shit. Each employee is only eligible for the subsidy once every five years, so that sketchy employers don't lay everyone off on their 364th day and rehire them on their 366th day. You know Amazon would do it.
Within the first year, there will be a group of people who are getting fired constantly and can't even keep a volunteer job. Some of it will be willful, and some of it will be because that person has some sort of an underlying problem--for instance, nobody wants to employ a BPD nightmare for very long. Anyone who gets fired or laid off 3 times in the first year gets shunted to a secondary program that identifies the nature of their problem. If they can be helped somehow, they get help--I'm sure a lot of these people are so dumb or uneducated, they can't hold a job. These people get targeted remedial education that focuses on job skills--reading, basic math, showing up on time, and hygiene, and get placed in a special job, perhaps factory work or at a car wash.
A huge number of them will be addicted to drugs, insane, or willfully stubborn. These get sent to the Penalty Box-- the most basic group housing, where food, medical treatment, psychological treatment, and rehab are provided. These people will never leave the Penalty Box unless they earn their way out of it. The conditions won't be too cruel, but it won't be fun either. Not as nice as sitting at home collecting welfare checks while everyone else works, that's for sure, and it will be cheaper to provide for their basic needs in bulk rather than individually. They will be served meals instead of selling their EBT, etc.
Their children will be in the Penalty Box as well, but the Children's Wing will have privileges, good schooling, balanced meals, hygiene, sports, child psychologists, games, holidays, and competent supervision to make sure they don't turn out like their parents and to give them a chance in life. The parents will still have access in off hours, but they won't be in charge of raising their own kids unless they earn their way out of the Penalty Box.
That way, the useless will be confined and cared for humanely, the ones who need more help will get help and be released, and the willfully stubborn will decide that maybe having a job isn't so bad after all. If all these things were done, it would end generational welfare, and definitely lift up the disadvantaged.
It's a pipe dream, I know. 48% of the country would fight it kicking and screaming, calling them "concentration camps" like they're ALREADY doing. The EBT work plan is a good start. I hope some day we can do more to get all the able-bodied working, and some of the less-than-abled too. The only way to stop generational welfare is to start with the kids, but the schools have failed.
You know the whole point of a treasury is to have as much gold as possible in one place, right?
You also know that the point of auditing it is to find out if that's gold's still there or not, right?
What the fuck even argument is this? He's not talking about moving gold too or from Fort Knox, he's just talking about finding out if you've been robbed or not. They wouldn't want to ship it around because walking in and finding it empty would make Biden look bad.
Can we get some critics with an IQ higher than Biden's, please? They're an important role and these ones just aren't holding up.
I'm more worried about the gold being devalued, 10k bars being marked 24k, plated bars of tungsten, etc. He'd better bring a team of metallurgists with him.
Suppose Trump shows up and the gold is gone or grossly devalued. Didn't we use that gold as collateral on our loans? Couldn't our creditors raise our interest rates sky-high, or worse yet, call in our loans if they found out? What would be the best thing for Trump to do then? Truth for truth's sake, or more lies? And if he comes back from Fort Knox and says "False alarm, Fort Knox is full of yuge amounts of beautiful gold,' can we or will we believe him?
