The lower class isn't just the lazy, living at home fucking all day and popping babies out kind, as much as you'd like to believe.

Are you saying there are no people like this?

There are also the unemployed as well as the underemployed (by BLS criteria), those who are actually trying to make ends meet, just struggling to survive

We have illegal immigrants in this country who work pennies on the dollar and somehow they survive. I don't think the problem is employment as much as desire to work hard.

That's the group that already has it hard enough, trying to provide for themselves and their family, put their kids or themselves through school, and hope that they can pull it together so that they or their children might have it a little easier down the line.

If you believe this is what's happening in trailer parks and inner cities you are kidding yourself. You have kids raising kids, high amounts of drug use & people just living off the government because they can. There are people like what you claim and I have no problem with them. I'd be for supporting them. However those that I described, what about them.. should we continue to provide their income?

The problem is a lot more complicated than "get a job" or "get better jobs", otherwise the unemployment and underemployment statistics wouldn't be what they are.

Here's a quick solution. You tie healthcare to employment ! BING! This way we don't reward the abusers, and we reward those contributing to the growth of this country. Don't make the employer be responsible make the state government responsible.

If you work over 40 hours a week you are entitled to healthcare coverage. That sounds like an awesome plan to me. How about you? Depending on how much you earn, will depend on the quality of that coverage? You can choose to supplement out of pocket if you like.