oldernwiser
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Collecting unemployment, getting food stamps ???
30 hours of labor/community service should be the price.........Picking up litter, working on infrastructure, shoveling shit..........doesnt matter
It would save the city money and that would be great considering that welfare programs seem to gobble up budgets nationwide.
Able bodied people should contribute. If they take tax payer money, it's only fair they do something to defray the cost.
Unfortunately, this has been bought up many times and each time there are lawyers involved to protect the rights of people to live off other people. In one government housing complex, people sued after being told they had to mow the lawns. The lawyers took care of that business. They don't want to work. Liberal lawyers (and Dem politicians are mostly lawyers) are there to coddle them. Hell, why would people be expected to work when they aren't even expected to obtain a damn ID card?
It's the tax paying workers that are the problem, you know. We are keeping more than half of the money we earn and that is outrageous!!!! We are supposed to get our IDs, show up for random drug testing and be to work on time every day. To expect even a fraction of that from government dependents is just wrong. Know your place, tax payer, know your place.
I don't know what your pay structure is, but I really wish I could keep half the money I earn. Hell - sometimes an extra sawbuck would be nice.
It was a lot different before my work went to India.
The fact of the matter is that median incomes are actually falling - not for those who have jobs right now, but for those who get displaced whenever our corporations find a way to save a few bucks and maximize profits. Those of us who fall off the wagon are forced to accept MUCH less, not because they aren't qualified, but because there just isn't as much of a need for their talents anymore.
I know that doesn't quite fit your stereotype of the average welfare recipient: someone who works in jobs far inferior to the level he was trained for far less money and now needs a hand so he can keep a moderately full belly and maybe have something left to pay the rent and the utilities.
I smile as I write this, because I know from first hand experience that one day it may be you who are standing in a line trying to get some of the fabled "free money" they give away at the county offices. I won't be able to see the look on your face - but I do have a good imagination.