What does public help create? Eternal subsidized (and lazy) people
I arrive to this article from BBC through this one of Sam Bowman (@S8mB) from ASI. It seems that in the UK the Government is planning a Welfare Reform Bill where they want to limit the total public help that a family receives from the Government to a cap of £26,000 (~32.000€). In BBC article they analyse the situation of a family (8 members) from north Wales who currently lives completely from public help. If they wanted to help people in such situation and to gain support against the reform, they are pretty clumsy…
First, as rightly pointed by Sam, is the fact that the “father” of the family, former software writer, after ten years of unemployment… has not he been able to recycle himself? Has not he been able to learn other software languages? To make apps? To learn javascript? To do something to improve the situation of his family? What has he been doing during the last 10 years then?
And second, as also pointed by Sam, the father of the family complains that if the Bill is passed, they will have to choose between “heating” or “eating”, but of course, the sky TV, the beers and the cigarettes (the ones affected by the cap) are untouchable.
Sincerely this “father” deserves the total withdrawal of the public help immediately. Fortunately for him he remains anonymous.
I point out this because one of the main problems that we are having in general in Europe, and in particular in Spain, is that people is getting used to the State to solve their problems, to cover their own incompetence, and to pay them a salary for doing nothing (in Spain many people think that they don´t have to earn a salary, but that they deserve it). I know that the previous generalization can be cruel, because there might be some cases where the situation is really critical, but all the other who take benefit of the situation without deserving it, are the cruel ones with the ones who really need it.
Hence, the total withdrawal of public help and the start from the beginning case by case need to be urgently addressed by all the Governments in Europe before it is too late. But who is going to put the bell to the cat?
