Max: >1) It IS bad to be on welfare. Welfare stinks. Anyone who prefers welfare >to employment that provides an adequate income (possibly including public >benefits) needs to rethink It seems strange to argue against what doesn't exist any longer, if you mean AFDC by welfare. Today's NYT said: "About two-thirds (of former welfare recipients) find at least sporadic work, according to most surveys. Others turn to family or boyfriends." The choice wasn't between AFDC and "employment that provides an adequate income" when Dems and Repubs were both trying to end AFDC, given the balance of forces. Counting the costs of care-giving for children, the disabled, the sick, and the old (which women on welfare shouldered), what was the price of providing jobs with adequate incomes for all the women on welfare? Noone talked about spending what it would really take to make welfare work for people. Theda Skocpol and William Julius Wilson said: "These things can be done without huge amounts of new public resources." Yoshie
