Re: OT: Why welfare doesn't work!

"Jon Slaughter" <Jon_Slaughter@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:pjCwk.22263$uE5.7186@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

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I guess hypothetically welfare is suppose to help make the parents
successful and it would then fit nicely into the above statements. But
in fact, by all the reasons you gave, it doesn't, and actually seems to
do the opposite.


There is that old saying, "Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day;
teach him how to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime".

Welfare doesn't "teach people to fish".a The problem isn't that poeple are
given money, the problem is that they are given a permanent income with
absolutely no requirement for them to do anything - IOW, a reward for non-
learning, non-adaptability, inability (or refusal) to cope.

In fact, if one is on welfare, one is *not permitted* to take any sort of
classes, i.e. job training. Which is just plain stupid - it ought to be
largely *contingent upon* people taking job training.

((Different from disability of course - a lot of folks who are disabled
*want* to work, but have limited options re: what they can do physically or
even mentally, such as in the case of brain damage.))




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