Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (45240)	2/15/2011 8:46:26 PM
From: TideGlider	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 103300

It seems you don't understand what I am saying. I don't advocate welfare, but when the government can force you do perform personal services for another we are in deep shit. The work should be performed to benefit the community as a whole, not one person who doesn't like to mow his lawn. There may be a situation in which they could be employed mowing the lawns for the elderly or infirm, but not for a particular person.

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (45240)	2/15/2011 9:10:58 PM
From: John	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 103300

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-