Maybe we need a government program that pays people a few thousand dollars to move if their income is below a certain amount, they live in a county with a COL at least 300% the national median, they move to a county with a COL no more than 150% the national median, and they obtain full time employment in the new location and maintain it?
People need to abandon cities like Los Angeles.
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It's been so much of a failure, I bet even the technocrats of the French welfare state lost count, cause their hellish social machinery grew so complex that they no longer can understand or control it themselves.
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I think we have unrealistic expectations about welfare because of politics.
Conservatives believe welfare is only worthwhile if it gets people out of poverty permanently. But a lot of people are always going to in poverty, even if they do everything right. You could learn a trade skill and never turn down full time work, but if the economy doesn't value you because of age or disability it is hopeless.
Also "welfare" isn't just the government giving people money. It's also things like federal funding for local and municipal projects and services. In highly centralized European countries, conservatives in power means austerity cuts to bus and train schedules, libraries and parks/recreational facilities close, the number of police and firefighters on duty is dropped, etc. Still you guys pay over half of your income in taxes for the privilege, I just don't get it.