U.S. citizens may be non-contributors to society for a number of reasons.
Physical or mental infirmity may limit a candidate's employment appeal.
"In 44 of 50 States a prison or jail holds more individuals with serious mental illness than the largest remaining State psychiatric hospital in those States." PBS NewsHour April 2018
Yet there are many within U.S. borders that have potential to be contributing members to society.
But U.S. society currently results in many "homeless" persons. Such persons can obtain a place to sleep, and "free" meals, by committing a crime, and being jailed or imprisoned for it.
Does this perverse incentive for crime built into U.S. society make sense? What is the alternative?
Should the U.S. guarantee basic food, clothing, and shelter to any that need it? Not necessarily a life-long career path, but a last resort for those that might otherwise be tempted to criminal misconduct for the "reward" of getting caught, and jailed?
"There is no law that says we have to go to work every day and follow our employer's orders. Legally there is nothing to prevent us from going to live in the wild like primitive people or from going into business for ourselves. But in practice there is very little wild country left, and there is room in the economy for only a limited number of small business owners. Hence most of us can survive only as someone else's employee." Excerpt from Unabomb Manifesto: author convict Theodore Kaczynski; sentenced to Lifetime imprisonment without possibility of parole
Physical or mental infirmity may limit a candidate's employment appeal.
"In 44 of 50 States a prison or jail holds more individuals with serious mental illness than the largest remaining State psychiatric hospital in those States." PBS NewsHour April 2018
Yet there are many within U.S. borders that have potential to be contributing members to society.
But U.S. society currently results in many "homeless" persons. Such persons can obtain a place to sleep, and "free" meals, by committing a crime, and being jailed or imprisoned for it.
Does this perverse incentive for crime built into U.S. society make sense? What is the alternative?
Should the U.S. guarantee basic food, clothing, and shelter to any that need it? Not necessarily a life-long career path, but a last resort for those that might otherwise be tempted to criminal misconduct for the "reward" of getting caught, and jailed?
"There is no law that says we have to go to work every day and follow our employer's orders. Legally there is nothing to prevent us from going to live in the wild like primitive people or from going into business for ourselves. But in practice there is very little wild country left, and there is room in the economy for only a limited number of small business owners. Hence most of us can survive only as someone else's employee." Excerpt from Unabomb Manifesto: author convict Theodore Kaczynski; sentenced to Lifetime imprisonment without possibility of parole