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deafdriscoll 09-28-2011 11:11 AM

welfare/ workfare
 
should welfare be changed to make them work for a pay check?

Digging4Truth 09-28-2011 01:41 PM

Re: welfare/ workfare
 
Absolutely.

If someone is drawing a regular paycheck why shouldn't the government get some labor out of it.

Ferd 09-28-2011 01:43 PM

Re: welfare/ workfare
 
They should have to work and they should have to prove they have spent time looking for a job.

Digging4Truth 09-28-2011 01:46 PM

Re: welfare/ workfare
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Ferd (Post 1101639)
They should have to work and they should have to prove they have spent time looking for a job.

Yep... job searching would be an excusable absense which requires some proof of where you went and how long the interviewing process took.

Dagwood 09-28-2011 03:16 PM

Re: welfare/ workfare
 
Yes, yes, yes!

And, mandate drug tests on those who seek welfare. I don't care what the reason is.

Report monthly living and entertainment expenses.

Also, don't allow $30k-$50k cars belonging to other people (those who work) to be driven by those on welfare -- they're poor enough to seek government assitance, they shouldn't be driving their momma's, daddy's, aunties, or granny's Escalade, Mercedes, BMW, etc.

I could go on...

Hoovie 09-28-2011 06:41 PM

Re: welfare/ workfare
 
Not in favor of adding to the gov bureaucracy. Welfare should not be a Federal program and I have my doubts whether it should exist in any gov form.

Praxeas 09-28-2011 07:40 PM

Re: welfare/ workfare
 
No, they should be helped/trained to get off welfare and enter the public work sector. There are too many government workers now

RevDWW 09-28-2011 10:08 PM

Re: welfare/ workfare
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Hoovie (Post 1101744)
Not in favor of adding to the gov bureaucracy. Welfare should not be a Federal program and I have my doubts whether it should exist in any gov form.

I agree. Charity should be done at the commnity level. If a man wants to eat he should work.


2Th 3:10 For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
2Th 3:11 For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.
2Th 3:12 Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
2Th 3:13 But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.

Digging4Truth 09-29-2011 06:35 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Hoovie (Post 1101744)
Not in favor of adding to the gov bureaucracy. Welfare should not be a Federal program and I have my doubts whether it should exist in any gov form.

Yep... that's the best case scenario.

I was answering on the basis of... since they're getting a check... shouldn't they work.

But... all in all what you present is my most preferred option.


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