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To: epicure who wrote (236531)	11/2/2013 10:51:19 AM
From: neolib	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 543056

I think a robust bounty system would work well. The problem is it is not just the recipients but the whole line of professionals who facilitate them getting on the system. There needs to be statistical tracking of all the players and if the stats shows that Doc X or social worker Y was associated with getting too many onto welfare who later are exposed by bounty hunters as scam artists, then Doc X and social worker Y pay a price for their behavior. There are food banks of course, and that is another source of abuse. My wife knows a lady (on food stamps of course) who has 3-4 kids (but the husband does have fulltime employment) who makes the food bank rounds and gets her full allotment which for some odd reason includes more chedder cheese than a small army could eat. She always gets the full amount, then gives the excess away to all her relatives and friends. Nobody thinks this is bad behavior at all. There is yet another wrinkle on this. In many ag communities near cities or towns, there are gleaning organizations. There members ask farmers if they can glean their fields after harvest and donate the food to charities. Guess who shows up to glean? Not the charity recipients, you know the poor who don't have jobs but lots of time on their hands. Its rich city people getting some country fresh air, and the good feeling of helping the poor. What increasingly annoys me is that these gleaning organizations are now promoting having their members glean for themselves, not just for the charities. It bugs me when well off people think that I as a farmer should let them glean rather than having them buy from me. My rule is if your car is better than mine, no can glean, and it helps that I drive older cars...