Sorry, but you're talking about a specific case in a specific state. I don't
know anyone who really wants to be a farm laborer. It's a dangerous,
dirty job. In general, people want to work. They don't want handouts.

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"Vito" wrote in message
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"Jonathan Ganz" wrote
The welfare mentality of which you speak is actually one of wanting
work, but .....

Bwahahahaha!

Ronnie Reagan thot the same thing when he was elected governor of Ca on a
promise to reduce welfare rolls. He promptly ended the Bracero Program
that
imported 1000s of Mexicans to labor in Ca, thus keeping those jobs for
Americans. But American welfare recipients thot themselves too good to do
"stoop labor"! The only willing workers were *college students*! With
farmers loosing crop after crop, Reagan decreed that any able bodied
person
who refused work would be stripped of welfare benefits. But the welfare
freaks sued, had a bunch shrinks testify that laziness was a debilitating
mental disease that precluded a lazy person from working. The (lazy?)
judge
ruled that lazy people should get disability payments vs welfare, thus
allowing Ronnie to keep his promise (c: