Martin Baxter wrote:
Vito wrote:
"katy" wrote
Those on welfare should have to go to a specific location every day
where work (farm or otherwise) is available. They would be provided
a chit for the days work to take back to the welfare office. if
they refused work (they would be permitted to allow for infirmities
and redirected into something they could do) their welfare is
decreased.
RR tried something like this when governor of California. Those facing work got
sympathetic shrinks to declare laziness a debilitating mental disease then
judges to agree. Thus if one is too lazy to work, the government can't make him.

That and the sytem is open to explotation the other way around, why pay
prevailing wage for manual labour whe you can get throught the local
welfare office at very nearly slave wages?

Cheers
Marty

That's the point, Martin...you can't get laborers at the prevailing
wage. A vast majority of those on welfare have bought into what the
education system has piped into their minds in the last 20
years...there own personal sense of self-worth dictates that they
will not get their hands dirty and that they, too should receive
huge wages for menial work Or worse, that they are above menial
work. They forget, or were never taught, that many people who made
it in the US system, started out as menial laborers. There
self-worth does not come from a hard work ethic or from seeing the
fruits of their labors, but from absorbing propaganda. I have always
been a great proponent of a national system, sort of like what the
Israeli's have, where a person, on finishing high school, either
goes into the armed services or joins a group like VISTA...Soputh
Korea does this. You receive a university education by fulfilling
either military or domestic service. My daughter-on-law served hers
during the Asian games and the Olympics as an interpretor.