Posted on 01/28/2013 9:42:11 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Japan distinguishes itself from the other economically advanced countries by caring for the principle that people who work should have more stuff than people who go on the welfare rolls. The Kyodo News Service reports:
Welfare benefits will be slashed by ¥74 billion over a three-year period starting from fiscal 2013, after a government panel found that some people are making more on the dole than the average low-income person who is not spends on living costs, it was learned Sunday.
The decision to lower standard benefit payments by 6.5 percent was made by welfare minister Norihisa Tamura and Finance Minister Taro Aso. The reduction will hit in August.
In the United States, a recent study in one state showed that to do better than taking advantage of all the services available to the nonworking, a family would have to earn about $65,000, far higher than the average wage. And in the UK, the mass circulation Sun today features a proud couple disdaining work, and glorying in all the nice stuff tghey have without lifting a finger to work:
A SKIVING couple told last night how they claim £17,680 a year in benefits - and don't even bother looking for work because it would leave them worse off.
Danny Creamer, 21, and Gina Allan, 18, spend each day watching their 47in flatscreen TV and smoking 40 cigarettes between them in their comfy two-bedroom flat.
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What a novel idea. I don’t think the government should do the welfare thing in the first place but they do. That said, welfare should not provide a nice lifestyle. It should be a safety net that provides a safe and healthy but spartan lifestyle that people want to get off of ASAP.
Sounds like a damn fine idea. Needs to happen faster than 3 years though and needs to happen here. Average well fare per household amounts to about $32/hr TAX FREE compared to median household income of about $25/hr TAXED.
Would you be motivated to find a job? Do the math.
Sounds like a damn fine idea. Needs to happen faster than 3 years though and needs to happen here. Average well fare per household amounts to about $32/hr TAX FREE compared to median household income of about $25/hr TAXED.
Would you be motivated to find a job? Do the math.
Sounds a bit wacciss to me.
Would you be motivated to find a job?
YES! After retiring from the Navy in 2011, I was out of work for 3 months and I could not stand it. Sure I may complain about getting up early from time to time, but to me there is NOTHING better than working. It is good for your mental and physical health IMHO.
RE; Sure I may complain about getting up early from time to time,
Didn’t you have to wake up VERY EARLY while in the Navy anyway?
At least the Japanese see it. Earn more than 65k a year? That blows me away, although it shouldn’t. Even my kids complain about the “bling” the free school lunchers have. (Remember, this doesn’t count any illegally earned or not reported income to the household. Disgusting.)
Captain John Smith had an even easier solution when Jamestown was founded: No work, no food.
Yes I did and I complained from time to time then too...lol.
I like the idea and it should be a start. But it should go further to where welfare should be abolished and allow private organizations to take care of those truly in need. And those organizations can better decide who gets help and who are S.O.L. Women who spread their legs and then pop babies out should be cut off and these private organizations would enforce that.
That actually make sense, people who work in the private sector should be paid more then people who live off the dole.Japan is one of those nations I actually worry about,they have got a nice and reverent culture but their finances are shot to hell.
Figures though if they keep it together and they keep their national spirit going and their culture strong,they might well survive.
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