Re: How would you deal with the unemployed and Social Welfare
i didn't see anyone else post this (but this thread is full of long-winded answers and i haven't read them all yet) and this is my solution:
Give government-supplied jobs to the unemployed. These jobs will pay minimum wage and consist of such duties as mowing highways, trash detail, picking up rodents, simple production, etc. This has been successfully done in the past and is one of the methods that was done to pull us out of the great depression. This way people on welfare are being productive members of society and if you aren't working, you aren't getting a check.
There are serious flaws in the welfare system as it is. I have a friend who only works 15 hours a week because she gets government assistance for her disabled child. If she actaully works more than that she goes over a cut-off on her income and would actually have to work 40 hours to break even.
Re: How would you deal with the unemployed and Social Welfare
[QUOTE=Lord Orwell](but this thread is full of long-winded answers and i haven't read them all yet)
MY long-winded answers. Don't you go blamin' them other folks, now! ANd besides, the long-winded answers had nothing to do with the topic of the thread.
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trash detail, picking up rodents, simple production,
That's what got us into this mess. Breaking people out of the cycle of poverty would mean educating folks. Not so much education as in schoolin' as education as in learning that they have more options open to them. When I worked with the poor, the greatest obstacle holding them back was a persistent belief that they weren't able to be anything else.
Re: How would you deal with the unemployed and Social Welfare
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Originally Posted by Lord Orwell
(but this thread is full of long-winded answers and i haven't read them all yet)
MY long-winded answers. Don't you go blamin' them other folks, now! ANd besides, the long-winded answers had nothing to do with the topic of the thread.
That's what got us into this mess. Breaking people out of the cycle of poverty would mean educating folks. Not so much education as in schoolin' as education as in learning that they have more options open to them. When I worked with the poor, the greatest obstacle holding them back was a persistent belief that they weren't able to be anything else.
i am not referring to everyone, but the truth is that not everyone is created equal, and some people really aren't capable of much more than simple production due to various reasons such as low intelligence, poor attention span, etc. And most people who aren't disabled or something can usually come up with a solution to help themselves. My state has several different and independent training programs, and there's always the military, etc. There is never a good reason to give government money away to anyone without something in return. For example welfare: If you can't afford your first kid, don't have any more! And the government used to be a lot stricter on this sort of thing. I am personally from a broken home because the government arbitrarily decided my mother didn't make enough money to support three children. So they took two of them, including myself. If she was an unfit mother they wouldn't have left her with any. I got to see all the paperwork when i entered the military. It was all because of money. She couldn't afford some of the basics such as healthcare. Back in the 70s there was no law for requiring anyone to give you health care unless you had money, and my brother died because the hospital wouldn't take him in. He had pneumonia. I also had it and the government actually stepped in and forced a local hospital to take care of me. but while i was in there, i was transferred custody to someone else. I never went home again.
