On Sep 14, 3:50*pm, Omelet > wrote:
> In article
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> *John Kane > wrote:
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> > On Sep 14, 1:57*pm, Omelet > wrote:
> > > In article >,
> > > *Dave Smith > wrote:
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> > > > What do you do in a case like that. He is a woman who was raised on
> > > > welfare, whose college education subsidized and received student grants,
> > > > who had the opportunity to get education and training to help her find
> > > > meaningful employment. But she knew that the system would support her,
> > > > so she intentionally got herself pregnant knowing that she could stay
> > > > home and not have to work. That was the way she was raised, and there is
> > > > a good chance that her kid will grow up with the same mind set.
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> > > That appears to be the problem in New Orleans...
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> > > The Answer?
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> > > No welfare. Period. Government home work programs! *If you get welfare,
> > > you do SOMETHING to earn it! Even if it's just sewing military uniforms
> > > at home...
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> > > NO free ride!
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> > And if you think you've got a crime problem now, just wait. * Starve
> > or shoot the lady in the mink coat?
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> > John Kane Kingson ON Canada
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> You may note that I offered a Government work program as an
> alternative... or were you not paying attention?

Yes. And so far I''ve read of examples in the USA, Canada and the UK
which usually don't work well enough to do anything other than make a
few consultants a bit better off.


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> Peace corps or *Civilian Corps of Engineers.

The last time I looked the Peace Corps or something like a CCE
required degrees or at the very least a reasonable level of literacy,
numeracy and passible physical and mental health.

Unfortunately a lot of welfare recipients don't have one or more of
these

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> Work for the money for the public.

I have no problem with that if a program can be designed that will
actually work. Just explain how you are going to get a single mother
to work when there is no childcare, the mentally disturbed (to
outright barmy) to function etc at less cost than welfare.

John Kane Kingston ON Canada