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Be two and a half million fewer people who want to enter the labor force and right now we are at historically low levels of workforce participation. why would the white house think by the response it seems like they it were trying to sell people on it it s a good idea to discourage people from working? they are trying to spin it as these are people who are just working for healthcare benefits and they would be much happier to be in lower level jobs the strange thing about this is this is a white house that is worried about people at the lower end of the income ladder it s going to cut their income. they are worried about income inequality. makes more people work less particularly at the lower end and worsen inequality which is something they claim to care about. all that s going on across the board is this sort of super safety net, benefits ....
Super safety net, benefits net if you will, so now you have got tax subsidized health insurance joining with disability insurance, which, by the way, enrollment in that has disubled since 19956789 it s become a sort of permanent welfare. you have got that and you have got food stamps so. these there are these incentives not to work. and what i keep saying over and over again, the problem with that is it confines people to poverty, jobs are what get people out of poverty. jobs are what get people on a mobility track to better incomes and jobs are what help reduce inequality. ed, am i right in describing it that is that the white house said this is not about killing jobs, this is about encouraging or somehow getting people to work less. is that what this is? you know, as i read the report and then as i have read our reporting and as i think byron outlined there is the idea that enough people now going to believe ....