Welfare surge kills initiative

Welfare surge kills initiative to prosper DUH! Equivalent Of: “Gun Control Does Not Lower Crime Rate”

“ America is rapidly turning its safety net into a comfortable cocoon. President Barack Obama's 2011 budget contains a welfare surge that will raise social spending by 42 percent above 2009 levels, according to an analysis by the Heritage Foundation. State and local welfare spending will total $953 million. The goal is to close the quality of life gap, so that nobody in America is too prosperous or too poor. In the process, the federal government risks making the dependent class even larger by destroying the basic incentive to work. Already, landscapers say they can't compete with unemployment checks to fill jobs that pay $10 to $12 an hour. Jobless benefits now stretch to nearly two years, allowing some laid-off workers the luxury to refuse job offers. Similar generosity in Europe has institutionalized the jobless rate at twice the U.S. level. The Detroit News Continued: ” Why is this news?  Several years ago the WSJ did a piece on Britain's welfare system, aka "the dole."  A sociologist wanted to find out why initiatives to raise graduation rates were failing miserably.  He surveyed students about what they aspired to if anything was possible;  those whose father was on the dole overwhelmingly answered,"Be on the dole like me dad."