Category Archives: Daily Q&A

There is no incentive to work whatsoever when welfare pays more than a job. This makes no sense but we know it is reality. This will only encourage people to stay on welfare rather than take that low paying first job. As training and work experience grows, salaries increase and keep moving up in most…
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I think I better get my book finished - the one where I show how we transition from the welfare state to the opportunity state. This plan is state-based and requires states to opt in - I think those that don't will be at a terrible disadvantage and just hope those that are really far…
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It's infuriating to know these entitlements are out there dangling like carrots in front of people who apparently don't have much pride and/or are too lazy to work.  It is way past time to reform them and I realize that this administration has no intention of allowing that to happen, in fact, they are piling…
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I am not surprised as the government is trying to buy influence with tax dollars. Now we have some acknowledgement of that fact.
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Benjamin Franklin said: “I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I traveled much, and I observed in different…
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I am amazed that we have not had an economic collapse already. I could be speaking too quickly. Our debt sits at 16 trillion (not counting the unfunded mandates and Obamacare). Our Gross Domestic Product is around 16.7. I want to hear our politicians talk about the Continuance of Government plan?
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I do not think that is necessarily wrong.  They are two very different things.  I was a New Hampshire State Representative and had to vote on bills concerning minimum wage.  A minimum wage is just that, the lowest wage that you can pay anyone, including a teenager at their first job.  I preferred to let…
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Yes, why work?  Now if I could just get a list of those states......
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When an able bodied society has the opportunity to be given more by not working than they can earn by working….we have then created a society that can easily be controlled by those that have created that situation.  It is time to clear the table.
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It is appalling.  What will be next?  Are we just going to continue to pander to the laziest part of our society?  This has to be corrected somehow.
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