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House of Roberts

(5,168 posts)
Thu May 25, 2017, 09:22 AM May 2017

Welfare For Work

This would make sense if not for the obvious: If there was work that needed doing, and available funds to pay people to do it, why not just hire them in the first place, at a decent wage, and eliminate the need to have them on welfare in the first place?

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Demsrule86

(68,556 posts)
1. No it doesn't make sense...it is a form of slavery...and at the pay welfare recipients...get
Thu May 25, 2017, 09:31 AM
May 2017

they assume all the negatives of working....transportation etc...with few rewards. And what if jobs are not available?

Orsino

(37,428 posts)
2. whaddya mean? It'll work perfectly alongside that new Republican jobs bill...
Thu May 25, 2017, 09:47 AM
May 2017

...that they will start thinking about any year now.

Warpy

(111,255 posts)
3. There is a lot of work that needs to be done
Thu May 25, 2017, 09:52 AM
May 2017

but fat cats and their bought governments don't want to pay anyone a decent wage to do it. Taking mothers away from their children seems just peachy to them, after all, child care really doesn't have to be done, does it?

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