Oftencold
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Well, the same ones that mugged me. The high school dropout baby machine, the fellow with the mild back trouble that's on lifelong disability, any recreational drug dealer that is in government sponsored rehab, anyone on food stamps who eats better food than I, participants in Native Health Services, the list goes on and on.What poor person knocked you down, stole your wallet, and went running off into the night with it?
I don't think that a variety of people here realize for most intensive purposes that welfare is nothing more than a fee we pay to poor people to stop them from robbing us and burglarizing our houses.
Evaluating Welfare Reform in the United StatesThis paper reviews the economic literature on welfare reform over the 1990s. A brief summary of the policy changes is followed by a discussion of the methodological techniques that analyze the effects of these changes on outcomes. The paper then critically reviews the econometric and experimental literature on caseload changes, labor force changes, poverty and income changes, and family formation changes. A growing body of evidence suggests that recent policy changes have influenced economic behavior and well-being. One particular set of “new-style” welfare programs seems to show especially promising results, with significantly increased work and earnings and reduced poverty.
Well, the same ones that mugged me. The high school dropout baby machine, the fellow with the mild back trouble that in on lifelong disability, any recreational drug dealer that is in government sponsored rehab, anyone on food stamps who eats better food than I, participants in Native Health Services, the list goes on and on.
Well, the same ones that mugged me. The high school dropout baby machine
We exploit a "natural experiment" associated with human reproduction to identify the causal effect of teen childbearing on the socioeconomic attainment of teen mothers. We exploit the fact that some women who become pregnant experience a miscarriage and do not have a live birth. Using miscarriages an instrumental variable, we estimate the effect of teen mothers not delaying their childbearing on their subsequent attainment. We find that many of the negative consequences of teenage childbearing are much smaller than those found in previous studies. For most outcomes, the adverse consequences of early childbearing are short-lived. Finally, for annual hours of work and earnings, we find that a teen mother would have lower levels of each at older ages if they had delayed their childbearing.
Crude stereotypes aren't especially enlightening, particularly the false ones. I'd recommend that you have a look at Hotz et al.'s Teenage Childbearing and Its Life Cycle Consequences: Exploiting a Natural Experiment. Consider the abstract:
Teenage childbearing can function as a beneficial reproductive strategy in light of its ability to facilitate later uninterrupted labor.
What poor person knocked you down, stole your wallet, and went running off into the night with it?
They're in Sacramento and Washington right now.
If he actually cared about the elimination of theft, he'd condemn capital accumulation through wage labor, as it relies on the unjust extraction of surplus labor in the production process and utilization in the circulation process to maintain a "vicious cycle" of sorts.
But he can't be expected to care about anything so trivial as that! :lol:
Oh so it's not poor people. It's politicians. Glad we cleared your misdirection up.
You're absolutely right. Wage labor is theft, so all rich people engaging in the practice of hiring people should stop immediately and close their factories.
No, it's poor people.
Don't worry, I've run into many a liberal that finds the simple metaphor too complex for their reading abilities.
I think most of them are public school graduates.
Well you're talking to neither a public school graduate nor a liberal.
A sounder conclusion would be that it's not necessary to maintain a financial class whose sole purpose is to "provide capital," and that embracing the efficiency benefits of workers' ownership and management would do us all good.
The same goes for me, my dear Mr. Akhbar. I'm neither a liberal nor a public school graduate, and I don't find your contribution to this thread very substantive in nature. :2wave:
Then explain your failure to understand the simple process of making a metaphor in the English language.
Sure it is.
You just don't like valid depictions.
Tell ya what, how about if the state of California ends its state subsidy of poverty and all you liberal socialist pity-party types dig into your very own personal bank accounts and show us how much you measure your compassion for these maggots, and I'll show you how much I measure mine by the same process?
You first.
I don't think that a variety of people here realize for most intensive purposes that welfare is nothing more than a fee we pay to poor people to stop them from robbing us and burglarizing our houses.
Well, no. Nobody has to "maintain" them, they do just fine maintaining themselves.
It's the poor people that need the jobs, not the rich folks.
But hey, if the rich can't use their money as they wish, they should certainly be allowed to take it home with them, right?
You got a problem with people hanging onto their own property?
Tell ya what, how about if the state of California ends its state subsidy of poverty and all you liberal socialist pity-party types dig into your very own personal bank accounts and show us how much you measure your compassion for these maggots, and I'll show you how much I measure mine by the same process?
You first.
But I thought you said the maggots were in washington. Are poor people still maggots? Or are politicians maggots? Or are poor people politicians? I scarcely believe you even know what you meant to say anymore.
An interesting comment!
I've already explained to you precisely why capital accumulation is based on theft,
As usual, you've chosen to abuse political economic terminology rather than make valid comment. Liberalism is necessarily opposed to socialism;
I'm sorry, I didn't realize that metaphor, descriptiuve allusion and irony were beyond you.So which one of them knocked you down, took your wallet, and went running off into the night with it? Because if there ain't no police report, there ain't no theft.
So are you saying that I'm not paying taxes to support programs for unwed teenage mothers that had children that they can't support?Crude stereotypes aren't especially enlightening, particularly the false ones. I'd recommend that you have a look at Hotz et al.'s Teenage Childbearing and Its Life Cycle Consequences: Exploiting a Natural Experiment. Consider the abstract:
Teenage childbearing can function as a beneficial reproductive strategy in light of its ability to facilitate later uninterrupted labor.
Well, I certainly hope that you haven't given up! Keep trying.Well you're talking to neither a public school graduate. . ..
There's poor people in Washington, DC.
It run by socialists, isn't it?
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