Welfare pays more than Minimum Wage

[fishin350]

Sounds a lot better than what happens now.

[Olgrey]

I agree that something needs to be done but I do not have all the answers. You cannot put just anyone in an environment that has school kids or handicapped persons in it. It has to be someone that can pass a background check. Many of the people on public assistance, are thieves, dopers, and worse so that takes away several of the options in giving them jobs. That being said, those types of people do need to perform some type of service to repay society for what they take from it. They would not like it but if they are physically able put them to work digging ditches for sewer and water lines, building playground equipment in new parks, cleaning public bathrooms, doing menial labor around sewer plants, picking through garbage and recycling, building sidewalks, painting public buildings, fighting forest fires, and make their participation in any assistance program conditional upon their working at these jobs. They need to realize that there are no free rides, someone has to pay.

[kygorski]

Soke of those jobs you mentioned are in fact a livlyhood for the people who depend on them for income. What happens to them? Our whole system of economics is based on consumerism. Take away the free food, do we need as many farmers? That poor schmuck on the bottom of the food chain has importance to the guy at the top of the pyramid.When were born we consume services, when we die we consume services.To consume you need to acquire, Techknology is out pacing reason.We cant go back in time, and it wont stay still, what a delema for a lot of us.