Aside from your confusion of entitlements with benefits, Rush, your question about “personal responsibility” and incentives or “motivation” does not match the real world.
The key to benefits should be, and is moving towards, helping those in need migrate to self sufficiency.
But I have been personally involved in training programs which helped develop jobs skills for those on welfare and for disabled people, to get them OFF benefits, to stop taking tax dollars and, instead, becoming taxpayers, that got CUT by Republicans.
I remember a specific program that I was involved with that got eliminated during the mid-1990’s by Republican governor Pete Wilson. Even the ultra conservative SD Union Tribune ran a front page study showing that the amount that program SAVED by getting people OFF welfare (or disability) and into productive careers (paying taxes instead of taking them) was several times more than the entire cost of the program itself!
That is just FOOLISH.
That is the kind of welfare I support.
As for cash aid, I feel it should be temporary, transitional and minimal, coupled with self improvement, job development, and job placement.
In any case, if you look at how those who achieve success live compared to those on benefits, and seriously think there is not rewards for “personal responsibility” and “motivation” to choose one over the other, then I am sorry, but your are truly delusional.
Sorry, but those on welfare do NOT live like hedge fund managers.
Even those who work hard for a living, in factories, get on average 1 / 400th what a CEO of a Fortune 500 company makes.
No incentive? No motivation?
You are joking, aren’t you?
How about if we make sure working people get paid better and not lose their subsistence indigent health care if they go to work?
Wouldn’t THAT be a motivating INCENTIVE to leave welfare and go to WORK?
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