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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: bentway who wrote (230884)9/3/2013 2:07:12 PM
From: neolib  Read Replies (1) of 542152
 
I'd like to see welfare made less comfortable, more visible, and less socially acceptable.

I more or less agree, but don't agree with your methods. The psychological aspects of poverty are very real, and making them worse isn't going to help. Many of those on welfare suffer from depression, and increasing that is not going to help them in life. I don't think the solutions are easy, but they do need to stay connected to how life in the working world works. They need to work. They need have performance reviews. They need to keep enhancing their skills. They need to stay a little hungry, a little uncomfortable, a little on edge about the next day. Its not an easy problem...
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