Alan Sugar Quotes
Why work when you can fill out a few forms and get paid for doing nothing?
Sugar, Alan. The Way I See It: Rants, Revelations and Rules for Life. Pan Macmillan, 2011.
It was finally passed and signed into law on August 22, 1996
Commenting on the British system to support people who cannot afford water and have water cut-off threatened:
Mormons have been divided on this issue. Many Mormons do accept welfare, and government subsidies for agriculture and other business corporate welfare and some hold with Benson’s view and would not accept for example agricultural subsidies for not growing crops. Ironically, Benson, as the Secretary of Agriculture, presided over the nation’s largest give-away program for not working: agricultural subsidies. However, this statement was made after his government service and was made as President of the Mormon Church.
Nixon’s view was very popular, except the reality of the welfare system was much more complicated than most people thought. A very large percentage of the adults on welfare were women with young children. There was no practical way for them to work unless there was some mechanism for caring for the children. Most of these women could only earn minimum wage which was not enough to cover the cost of child care. Providing child care would then cost more welfare money for this investment and politicians, even those hating the welfare system as it was, would not make this investment which would have dubious payoff. Training the women for better paying jobs and covering their child care in the process, works but the investment is very large and gives the government even more control of American life so there has never been a consensus for this. In other cases, women could get work but not having an automobile, they could not get to jobs in most of the United states. Further, requiring welfare recipients to work, collapsed when the economy was in recession. Many women just could not find jobs, and even when the government provided assistance, the state of the local economy determined whether or not workfare was practical.
Alan Michael Sugar, Baron Sugar is a British business magnate, media personality, author, politician, and political adviser. In 1968, he started what would later become his largest business venture, consumer electronics company Amstrad. In 2007, he sold his remaining interest in the company in a deal to BSkyB for £125m.
