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Originally Posted by Rochard
No, then you have a bunch of hungry people willing to dig ditches for minimum wage because they are tired of being hungry.
The problem we have - and it's been mentioned here already - is that Americans feel we are entitled. Every high school graduate believes they are above minimum wage and above working in such industries as fast food. I worked fast food for seven years and had a blast doing it. Unless your coming out of high school with four years work experience, your worth only minimum wage - the truth is your worth less but legally no one can pay you less.
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I don't know that it is just an American problem I think it is a human problem. There are some people who just feel like they can do what they want and that they are owed something by everyone else. Every country in the world has crime. Many of these acts of crime are people stealing stuff from other people. That will never change. There are always going to be people who will feel it is easier to just take something than to work for it.
If we were to get rid of welfare completely I think some of them people would go out and get a job, but I think a lot of them would turn to crime and we would end up paying for them only instead of the payment being in the form of welfare checks it would be in the form of putting them through the criminal justice system.