Dave Smith > wrote in
:

> Michel Boucher wrote:
>
>>> *Some* people turn to welfare as a last resort. Meanwhile, there are
>>> lots of people out there who have no problem getting pregnant and
>>> unable to support the children and living on welfare. Then they
>>> demand day care and special education and training programs to get
>>> themselves back into the work force.
>>
>> If they're being asked to go into the work force, they should receive
>> support. All the single mothers I knew who were on welfare in the
>> 80's now have jobs and own houses because as tight-assed as the
>> system was, it also provided support. Obviously someone then had no
>> idea what they were doing, eh?
>
> Yet, there are a lot of women of that generation who are still on
> welfare, as are their children. Meanwhile, the rest of us went to
> school, got jobs, found places to live and then had children. What
> suckers we were. We could have stayed home and let others support us.
> Instead, we paid higher taxes to look after them and their kids as
> well as ourselves.

Your...argument, for want of a better word...merely sounds like sour
grapes.

Being on welfare is not a picnic. I was a recipient of basic income at one
time and having to live on what I got was no help in getting employment, in
fact it was a hindrance.

Employers, being the sharp pinheads they are, don't want to hire a welfare
recipient because precisely of the same mentality which you exhibit here.
Put them to work, yes, but NIMBY.

So until this attitude of (ugly) capitalist entitlement ceases, it is
unlikely that welfare recipients will be fully empowered to find their way,
and, honestly, I believe not everyone should be made to work. But that's
another debate. Me, I have 275 calendare days to go until I retire and yet
I have no animosity towards those whose basic need exceeds their ability.
Why is that, do you think?