Do the Math: People Don't Choose to Be Poor or Unemployed

Anthony W. Orlando, lecturer in the College of Business and Economics at California State University, Los Angeles, and managing partner of the Orlando Investment Group, wrote this wonderful tongue-in-cheek post, pointing out that if everyone did the math, as he did, then nobody would think that anyone really wants to be unemployed and poor.    

God, I wish I were poor.

And unemployed. That's the good life. Poor and unemployed.

I mean, just look at all the cool stuff you get. Medicaid and welfare. Food stamps and unemployment insurance. And don't forget public housing.

This stuff is so awesome that it's like a "hammock that lulls able-bodied people to lives of dependency and complacency, that drains them of their will and their incentive to make the most of their lives." That's what Paul Ryan says, at least, and as the Chairman of the House Budget Committee, he's supposed to know these things, right?

According to Ryan and his fellow Republicans, if I have unemployment insurance, I'll never want to work again. Senator Rand Paul says it will cause me "to become part of this perpetual unemployed group." With an average benefit of $269 per week, I'll be living on Easy Street.

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