Work And Food Stamps

[seer]

This is a good thing - right?

Alabama is reporting something remarkable as a result of their replacing work requirements on food stamps – a massive reduction in food stamp participation. The decrease was reported in statistics from the Alabama Department of Human Resources.

According to Alabama Media Group, thirteen counties in Alabama replaced work requirements for food stamp participation and saw an astounding 85% drop in people using the program.

The work requirements were waived during the economic downturn of 2011-2013 under high unemployment numbers. The requirements were reinstated for 54 counties in 2016, and the 13 remaining counties in 2017.

Statewide, the Alabama Human Resources Dept. reported that the number of able-bodied adults without dependents participating in the food stamp program fell by 40% from 13,663 to 8,125, in just the first four months of 2017. In the thirteen counties where work requirements resumed, adults between the ages 18-50 without dependents receiving food stamps dropped from 5,538 to an amazing 831, a decrease of 85% in just four months.

http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/06...what-happened/

[Cerebrum123]

If I'm reading it right that's a good thing. I recently saw a picture with a guy trying to take a bear in to get him food stamps only to be met with the reply "we can't do that otherwise he might become dependent and unable to fend for himself".

[Mountain Man]

It's funny that when you give people an option to not work, a majority of them don't.

[rogue06]

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[Meh Gerbil]

What happens if we feed the lazy to the bears?

[rogue06]

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[stfoskey15]

This is a good thing - right?

It depends on what effects it has on the eating habits of the population.

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I hope someday automation gets so advanced we don't have to work anymore.

[seer]

I hope someday automation gets so advanced we don't have to work anymore.

Then how do you earn money?

[Teallaura]

Conversely, if you are working and make too much money, you are no longer eligible - never mind that 'too much' is less than the COL.

[stfoskey15]

Then how do you earn money?

You don't. The wealth created by the robots gets taxed and redistributed to the people.

[Mountain Man]

You don't. The wealth created by the robots gets taxed and redistributed to the people.

Please tell me you're being sarcastic. Anybody even moderately familiar with history can tell you why that will never work.

[seer]

You don't. The wealth created by the robots gets taxed and redistributed to the people.

But how do robots create wealth if no one is making money to buy the products that the robots are making in the first place?

[Sparko]

But how do robots create wealth if no one is making money to buy the products that the robots are making in the first place?

If robots are making the products and giving them to you for free what do you need money for?

Resistance is futile.

[seer]

If robots are making the products and giving them to you for free what do you need money for?

They still will need raw material to make the products. But stfoskey was making a different point. It all sounds like this to me.

[Sparko]

They still will need raw material to make the products. But stfoskey was making a different point. It all sounds like this to me.

But the robots can mine and smelt and gather the raw materials themselves. And build more robots, and repair themselves and eventually all we will be needed for is to generate electricity from our body heat and live in the matrix.

I never did figure out why the robots kept the people around as batteries in the Matrix. It would have been more efficient to just build power plants and run them than create huge buildings and machinery to feed people in the matrix. dumb bots.