Yes, with a caveat concerning the nature of the work; there was an incident in Germany a couple of years ago about a woman being kicked off off welfare after being offered a job as a prostitute. I think we can all agree that that should not happen.
At the same time, I think the best way to get people off of welfare is to educate them so that they can get better jobs. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
P.S. thank you for the question! This is exactly the sort of thing that needs to be discussed, and hasn’t been, this year.
Then why don't YOU educate them? Why do you insist on playing the apathy card and passing the buck to the system that created the educational system that put them in the circumstances in the first place. Its like sending someone back to the mechanic who screwed up their car, to fix his own screw up. Why is it that we've spent $11Trillion dollars on the 'war on poverty', yet we are told that things are getting worse, and worse, and worse.. definition of insanity anyone?
Ha! Ha! Now that is a funny joke! I used to work for the State of Ohio Human Services Dept. It wasn't lack of education that kept the welfare rolls full. It was getting paid more money for every baby you squirted out.
I agree. What do you propose we do with the young people who either refuse to go to school or if they do go to school, it's to disrupt it. Our business started in the inner city & there were usually lot of school aged children playing outside during school days & hours. Freshman classes are about 4 times as large as Senior classes in Milwaukee, showing clearly the drop out rate.
You can lead a horse to water, but if he's not thirsty, he won't drink.
News flash: The world needs ditch diggers. The problem is not a lack of education, it's that people are too proud to do real work & would rather take a handout from the government.
“I think the best way to get people off of welfare is to educate them so that they can get better jobs.”
We already have this via TAA. Corporations create jobs. Corporations cannot remain competitive in a nation with the second highest corporate tax rate in the world. Obama will make sure America has the highest corporate tax rate in the world. This will increase the loss of jobs. Obama will then continue to blame the rich.
I think education is over-rated. We spend way too much money for little or nothing. 12 years of education ought to produce a fairly literate individual capable of learning new skills. It don’t take a rocket scientist to drive a truck, do hair, frame a house, work a cash register, dig a sewer line, fix a lawn-mower, do filing work, etc.
I think our educational system is disconnected from reality and why we waste money trying to teach the quadratic equation to your non-science majoring type person is way beyond me.
parsy, who has read a few books