Don't Work for a Living? | The Patriot Post

Political Editors: In Brief: Don't Work for a Living? | The Patriot Post

• Ending the expectation for adults to work erases human dignity.

"Democrats...ever since the “Great Society,” they’ve devalued work itself.
Patrick Garry, professor of law at the University of South Dakota, says that’s a deep problem.

During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the most crippling form of poverty was seen as the poverty of dignity. To read all the letters and diaries and recollections of the time is to see that the severe economic hardship caused by the loss of a job was often considered temporary and survivable. But what destroyed the human spirit — what petrified people the most — was a loss of dignity caused by the loss of work.

The generation of the Great Depression demonstrated that economic poverty did not permanently cripple, as long as human dignity survived...Read all!