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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Rambi who wrote (8456)5/5/1997 6:22:00 PM
From: Janice Shell   of 108807
 
Penni--

Okay. Got me. BUT. "The welfare recipent would not be forced at gunpoint." Nice to know. He/she has a choice. What sort of choice? Not much. You don't see this as coercion? There might well be many welfare "animals" who'd jump at the chance for an education of sorts (and in fact quite a lot of poor people choose to enlist in the armed forces for that very reason), but, as Andrew asked, who's gonna pay for it?

So if CW doesn't do his "compulsory volunteerism" he won't graduate from high school. If the person on welfare doesn't agree to "labor camp" training he/she gets to starve or turn to a life of crime. I don't see any difference here (except in degree). Should be the carrot and the stick, but in these cases it's the carrot OR the stick. I think both "ideas" are deplorable.

These aren't simple questions, and simple solutions won't do.

Janice
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