Why work for a living when you can not work for a living instead?

Posted by Vitoc 11 years, 3 months ago to Politics
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"You do have the right to healthcare and to education and to decent housing and to quality food at all times"

So can someone please tell me... if all these things are "rights" that are guaranteed to us simply for being alive in this country, why would anyone work for those same things? We're already on the cusp of adding internet and computers as "rights" as well. Then we can all just sit in out government-provided homes and eat our government-provided food and play around on our government-provided internet and computers all day long. Think how glorious it will be. All we have to do in exchange is vote for the politicians guaranteeing the most/best free stuff and call it something noble sounding like "social justice" -- who cares if any of this is sustainable anymore, right? We can just eat the rich and worry about the consequences later, or not.

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  • Posted by mminnick 11 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Perhaps "Right" is not the correct word. There is or was a societal expectation that parents would provide these things for their children. That expectation has been eroded over the years and is now IMHO about to become the minority opinion and about as effective as a Judicial Minority Opinion.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 11 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    They don't have a "right." We as a society should have the expectation that they have these things.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 11 years, 3 months ago
    I don't see any of those "rights" mentioned in the Constitution. Therefore, they don't exist as rights.

    Besides, this bimbo is a real airhead.
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  • Posted by $ Susanne 11 years, 3 months ago
    As a kid, I had, on the average, 2 jobs at any given time. Plus went to school. As a young adult, that didn't change. There were times I was without work (small community, bad economy) but I never took public dole money - too much pride. I got deathly sick - and arranged to make payments to the doctor and hospital because I didn't have health insurance.

    And yet, somehow, I am successful today. When I was young, we used to talk - badly - about the girls who got pregnant over and over to get welfare money from the system. We used to say "Don't they have any self respect?"

    And now... our culture, our conditioning, we're steering our children toward a lifestyle of moocherism. And it's an engineered path - BECAUSE there is no daddy richpockets at the other end to support these forever-children they're being steered into a life of Serfdom, relying on Big Brother because they are unable to stand on their own 2 feet and have some self-pride...
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  • Posted by mminnick 11 years, 3 months ago
    Let me address the "Children issue". Children have a right to have all of the things mentioned. They have a right to expect to receive these thing. They have the right to expect these thing and receive these things from their PARENTS. I received these things from my parents. My wife received these things from her parents, my children received these this from my wife and I. We didn't get hand outs, my parents did get hand out, my wife's parents didn't get them either.
    I know some bread winners are having trouble making ends meet, putting food on the table. I know its hard. Been there, done that several times in my life. In one of those period now. I've work as a dish washer (granted way back), and I've been a high paid executive. It really doesn't matter. you have to work and work hard to provide for your family.
    One thing I have discovered. Family is the answer. Having it hard, talk with your family, they can help through encouragement and money. Don't be afraid to ask for help from the family.
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