Do you believe that everyone deserves food and housing, regardless of ability to work?

[daredtowork]

129. You might get a little bored and depressed

when ALL you have in life is a roof over your head and enough food to get by. People need more than that for quality of life - and that's what really drives people to work and achieve.

This is the basic fallacy of the GOP's continuous attack on the poor. They think people will "settle" in a static condition of life because they are too lazy to want more. But people have a funny way of not being satisfied with less. Put them in a concrete block apartment and make them stand with their nose pressed to the window on America's commercial streets and people have a way of start complaining and casting about on how they can earn some money for some bling.

But in a civilized society people won't be starving or sleeping out on the streets. People won't be exposed to the ridicule and street bullying of others. People will be enabled with autonomy, and they will be able to chose when to make their move and start climbing whatever ladders they choose to success.