Of the chronically unemployed, some are substance abusers, others have very low IQs and education levels, and some have personality disorders that are obstacles to sustaining any job. Truthfully, many employers would do better letting a position remain unfilled than hiring people who would be destructive to the order of their businesses. Social workers, almost invariably liberals, have seen the firsthand effects of welfare. Though fighting for the sustenance and dignity of their clients, the welfare system's undermining of self-respect was manifest to all but the most zealous workers in the system. Worst of all the system reproduces itself.
Welfare moms on average have one more child.
Luckily such a decoupling coincided with the longest stretch of economic prosperity ever recorded in the history of the United States. But recession is probably upon us, and the poor, last hired, will be first fired. And the nonworking poor will quickly be on the streets, since the working poor will not have the resources to support their indigent relatives. A long-term solution is to bribe the poor to sterilize. No threats of reduced benefits and no bribes of early prison release should be made to coerce what must be a voluntary program.