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| Job-shy on the dole to be pushed into unpaid work | |
| 2010-11-07 | |
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| Posted by:lotp |
| #9 Try this: To collect welfare, a person must "punch in" in person at the welfare office at 8 am Mon-Fri, and return in person to "punch out" at 5 pm. Miss punch in or out, dole check gets pro rated for that day. Many would zero their checks out by total failure to even show up for 30 seconds twice a day. And the truth would be there for all to see... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2010-11-07 15:36 |
| #8 Getting up every day to go to the "office" to sweep streets in order to get a check at the end of the week is the first step toward acquiring the skills and attitude necessary to hold a paying job... even if that job is sweeping the streets. You and I have to work for our income. There is no reason why the poor should get it for doing nothing. Even most of the handicapped can do something, and are proud to be more independent. Mmy mother designed programs for a sheltered workshop for mentally retarded, multiply handicapped adults. Yes, they were only doing things like putting nuts and bolts into glassine envelopes, and when paid by the piece were not capable of earning even minimum wage, but there was a great deal of pride in the accomplishment even as they worked on their sorting and counting skills... and the companies that hired the workshop benefitted even as the taxpayers paid a little less for their care and support. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-11-07 14:34 |
| #7 Work-shy? Is that the same thing that the Times calls "funemployment"? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2010-11-07 12:19 |
| #6 It is a start, at least addressing the problem. Thing is, they are not working for free - they put in hours somewhere in order to qualify for unemployment money. Taxpayers are picking up the tab still. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2010-11-07 12:12 |
| #5 The American term is Workfare. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-11-07 09:09 |
| #4 Precisely correct BP. A simple fact lost on our Babylon on the Potomac crowd as well. Add to that the fact, even if available, gainful employment is not Halal and you have a rich recipe for disaster. The enemy is recruiting in our midst. Prince Bandar's entourage left volutarily after 9/11 and the rest should have been sent packing soon thereafter. Our failure to deport these vermin may very well spell our doom. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-11-07 06:52 |
| #3 The sad thing is that most of these people are unemployable at any level of economic activity, due to the entitlement complex and other anti-values instilled in them by the "welfare" state and indoctrination system. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2010-11-07 06:37 |
| #2 I suggest Camps of Refuge. Where is Lord Kitchener when you need him? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-11-07 06:25 |
| #1 Congratulations, England-- you've invented serfdom. note to America-- We did fight a civil war over this subject back in the 19th century. Better to cut off bennies all together. Same results, without the administrative overhead. |
| Posted by: nGuard 2010-11-07 04:11 |