On 2/11/07, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: .... > For my part Welfare reform is a great example of how giving people > money for nothing doesn't work. It might *seem* benevolent but, if > fact, it just created *more* poverty. So there's a real world example > of good policy. And it's about pulling people off the public dole.
Well, I've got first hand experience in the fact that well-fare DOES work. Money for nothing didn't work too good, actually, so we imposed some reform-- like you gotta be actively looking for work, etc., etc.. Bunch of stuff to "encourage" people to use it or loose it. Anyways, I worked pretty close with the Welfare to Work program, and I saw people /move off of welfare/!! It does happen! Really! A constant stream of them, even!!! With my own two eyes! Funny thing was-- many of them turned around and got jobs doing the same damn thing! Helping others get off welfare. It was pretty, I don't know, warm fuzzyish. > Teach a man to fish, that's what works, and Jesus agrees with me. No, it's all about proper cycles and use-- balance, etc. So you teach a million people how to fish-- what do you do when there are no longer any fish in the ocean (probably as a result of all the fishing, and thus, the solution only caused the next problem). > (now, let's see what I can do about the women having sex thing ...) Sterilize anyone who makes under 200k a year! Dang-- then we get into the whole problem of how for some reason educated people have less kids, or whatnot. Eh, breed ourselves outta the problem, and thus: no us, no problem! 's one way, at least... =] Really it's pretty damn hard to get off welfare. We've set ourselves up to fail, actually. Need a more holistic approach, I reckon. But getting rid of welfare is as silly an idea as everyone being on it. It's just not that cut and dry- as hard as we try to rationalize it so. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:227755 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
