[JessicaLin]

http://www.timnerenz.com/2011/08/safety-net.html
Because a job does not merely provide income; a job also delivers self-esteem, pride, respect, confidence, and responsibility. It is the uninterrupted aggregation of job experience over a long career that prepares one for the highest-paying positions. Over time, a job instills discipline, imparts wisdom, teaches teamwork and compromise, and gives a sense of community.

The great fallacy of the progressive movement is the notion that government could deliver any those things. Government can only take money from one person and give it to another; it cannot transfer pride, or responsibility, or confidence. Good read. Very good read.