IS YOUR CHILD A TERRORIST? U.S. GOVERNMENT QUESTIONNAIRE RATES FAMILIES AT RISK FOR EXTREMISM

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33. It's a lot of "teachable moments"

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My automatic response to beggars used to be that they should be getting money from the "welfare", where the "government" would vet whether they really needed/deserved/qualified for help. Now I know that the "welfare" system was devastated long ago, and people need to get under-the-table cash somehow to get basic needs met.

I also used to be the first to call for "fraud investigation" as the remedy for any suspicion of misuse of funds. Now I know the funds are too small for this to be an efficient use of taxpayer money, and most of it isn't in the form of direct cash anyway. It's medical care, job search assistance, food stamps, and very small rent assistance. Living on zero income is very stressful. Adding constant surveillance to that just makes it worse. In my case, I'm also sure it was triggered by my trouble-making MoveOn.org petition (see my sig) since the ostensible trigger was beyond bogus.