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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: username who wrote (130187)	3/5/2001 3:36:29 PM
From: ThirdEye	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Traska: You are very clear in your opinions, though I lean toward Nadine's view of GWB. What I can't ignore is the seemingly universally held opinion among conservatives that people on welfare are lazy cheats sucking the rest of us dry. As it happens I am in regular contact in my work in a medical facility with a segment of people at the lower end of the scale. They are the working poor, basically. The point is, alot of them barely make it on the coping skills they have. They are one false move from welfare. And if they are representative at all, they indicate that a significant portion of people who are on welfare are either of limited intelligence, psychologically damaged or so poorly oriented to social norms that to call them lazy is to completely misjudge who they are or their capacity to even formulate such a sophisticated intention as to "scam" the system. I suspect there will always be a portion of the population who fit this description. The level of basic life skills they need is so elementary that I doubt any great success will ever be achieved even with that approach.