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Posted by Train Dude on Wed Jun 8 09:38:50 2011, in response to Re: Fox News - Is Government Aid Helping or Hurting Blacks?, posted by JayMan on Wed Jun 8 09:21:21 2011. I can almost agree with you that welfare does not keep the majority of recipients captive to the system. I say almost because I had a very close relative who played the welfare game in Florida. The person had reasonably good technical skills - enough to get by in industry. Yet when I took him to an adult education center in Sunrise, Fl. and gave him the money to enroll, I literally watched him go in the front door and then duck out a side door. As long as he was getting the check, he could stay home, do his drugs and make babies. He did this until he OD'd a few years ago - followed several months later by his 20 year old daughter.I agree that welfare will always be necessary in this country so we need to resign ourselves to it. Lest we end up with the specter of street beggars such as in Calcutta and other 3rd world basins of poverty. What i do not agree with is that welfare should be free. My belief is that all recipients should be required (except in the case of mothers with children too young for day care) to perform some sort of community work for their stipend. This will provide 2 benefits. First - it will get things done that need to be done anyway. Second and more importantly - it will take people off the dole who can work by having them come to the realization that as long as they have to work for "the check" they can find something on the outside where they can do better. Do not dismiss John Stossel's ideas so quickly. They may not be perfect but his beliefs do offer some possibilities. |
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