My issue is that welfare recipients do not have to work for their free checks. It's "free money" from the welfare recipients' perspectives.
From my perspective, I pay taxes that are used to give the welfare recipient the "free money", but I receive nothing in return.
So, considering that, here's how it breaks down under the current system:
1. Welfare recipients: Receives free money for doing absolutely nothing.
2. Government: Receives a hefty "administrative fee" for facilitating and managing the flow of money from taxpayers to the welfare recipients.
3. Taxpayers: Forced at gunpoint to pay for welfare recipients to sit around and do nothing, yet receive nothing back in return.
So, that's why I had the idea for a "Work for Welfare" program where the welfare recipients would mow lawns, wash cars, sweep streets, pull weeds, pick up trash, etc. It seems fair to me since I am paying their "salaries", but, like I said, I would not be opposed to Tide's idea of a work farm.
It seems like life was better when we had chain gangs, debtor's prisons, corporal punishment in schools and prisons, poor houses, and fewer welfare recipients. -ng-
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