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

[LWolf]

155. You see people who don't want to work.

I've never seen that.

It's interesting how the lens one brings to an issue changes what one sees.

I've seen people who chose not to work because they were needed to care for family members, or because they wanted to finish an education, or because the jobs they could get offered little to no net benefit.

I've seen people not working because of physical and mental disabilities.

I've seen people not working because they've lost hope, because they live in fear, in desperation, and don't know how to lift themselves out of it.

I've seen people not working because they simply can't find someone to hire them.

I see people in crisis, and care more about them as humans than about their productivity. That's the lens of empathy.

You see through a lens of judgement. I think my lens is bigger, broader, deeper, and more encompassing.

I think every human being should have access to safe, clean shelter, sanitation, warmth, clothing, healthy food, and transportation.

I think every person who wants a job should have one...a job that pays a living wage.

I think working people should have access to quality child care.

I think every person should have easy access to free health care, paid for by taxes.

I think every person should have access to free public education, all the way through trade school or university.