A hundred years ago, people who lived in poverty lived in wretched conditions, often without sufficient food, shelter and medical care. Today, those who cannot or will not work live about as comfortably as those who do.
The food stamp program provides them with food, Medicaid takes care of their medical problems for free, and many receive free or reduced housing benefits and a couple years of unemployment benefits so more and more Americans lack incentive to work.
Many Americans are working to provide for others who actually have a higher income than they do when all of the government …
