Orrin Hatch - No money to help lazy people depended on Fed Govt. with CHIP

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Hatch isn't wrong about the fact that there are folks that, truly, make no effort to work.  It's not an unreasonable expectation that folks do what they CAN do to help themselves, and there are, in fact, folks who simply make no effort to work, and to HOLD a job.  To say that such people don't exist is denial at its most ludicrous.

This, of course, has to be balanced against how difficult the investor class has made it for families to afford housing, be paid living wages, etc.  I'm a college educated man with a job requiring a college degree, and I'm working a 2nd job again.  (My second job is hard, nasty work, but it doesn't conflict with my primary job, which provides my benefits and retirement.) 

My daughter-in-law is a person Sen. Hatch would call lazy.  And, yes, she is.  She also has psychiatric diagnoses that are real.  She has been able to GET a job, but she'll not get up to go to it (major depression or agorophobia), and when she is employed, it's a matter of a few weeks before she provides the workplace drama of some sort that gets her fired.  Many "lazy" people are folks like this; folks who (like my daughter-in-law) are severely damaged by events in their own lives, and not all of them have the sort of family support that pushed them to receive mental health treatment. 

So Orrin Hatch, at heart, is someone who doesn't care about the truly unfortunate.  He cares about the complaints of comfortable folks who's "discomfort" is all about their own set of opportunities being rearranged.  That's as opposed to folks whose discomfort is caused by an economic event that will radically alter their standard of living, which is already suffering.  He's a shill for the folks that fund his campaigns; does that surprise anyone?

I will say this:  One of the biggest forces driving the cost of living up is the "real estate investor".  These folks are mostly vultures; buying rentals up and selling them for inflated rates.  So I propose that there be a MASSIVE FF MOVEMENT to drive folks like HGTV out of business. Their shows (Property Brothers, Love It Or List It, etc.) glorify the "investor" and drive the problem.  America is no better off because folks can successfully speculate in buying and selling houses.  That's an afterthought, but I never want to miss an opportunity to shine light on a problem.