OT: The Dole Brings Out the Worst in People (Introduction)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Sunday, August 14, 2011, 16:48 (4829 days ago) @ David Turell


> > A good question though: If our welfare system in the 1980's was so bad that a single mother got $300/month in foodstamps, how on earth do you make that 'tougher?'
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> It needn't be tougher. Offer monetary suppport at a basic needs level. Insist on social worker help for job training, some psychotherapy, wasteful spending analysis, etc. Meaningful safe nets require more than a dole of money.-So how is what we have now, different from what I got back then?

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