[lowbridge]

To keep her public housing apartment, the one-page letter from the New York City Housing Authority said, Ms. Malave, a stay-at-home mother of four boys under the age of 18, would have to perform 96 hours of unpaid community service over the next 12 months.

8 hours a month! The monsters.

[goldstategop]

I don't understand their attitude. The taxpayers give them a roof over their heads. The least they can do is show gratitude to the people whose hard earned money gives them a place to live.

[Prime Choice]

And so some people who work in world of subsidized housing contend that many New York residents are becoming increasingly anxious and angry about a program that they feel is impractical and insulting.

So it's "impractical and insulting" that these people have to give instead of just take?

If they did just 2 hours a week of volunteer work, that would more than satisfy the annual community service requirement.

If they're really that upset about it, I suggest they look into improving their lot in life rather than whining about this.

[monocle]

One will get ten that those tenants who most strenuously object are the most vocal supporters of "fair" taxes.

[kitkat]

"Because Congress saw them as poor people of color in need of lifting up by their bootstraps unlike the real recipients of federal benefits: tobacco farmers, large corporations like Halliburton and even people who get tax deductions for their mortgages."

They always have to throw in Halliburton, don't they? In any event, the people mentioned are the ones who PAY TAXES.

[ikka]

"I'm not free to be a mother?" asked Ms. Malave, 42, as she sat with her husband and sons. "We're not breaking the law."

Not on my dime, lady. And yes, you are breaking the law. How about you get off the dole, and then you can tell The Man to shove it once you are self-sufficient.

[Flyer]

The enforcement of that law has been delayed. . . by Representative Charles B. Rangel

Until there was a Republican in the White House, in the middle of a reelection campaign.

[ODDITHER]

When I worked for Social Services, I cleaned out the vault of a 100+ year old court house in rustic Cripple Creek Colorado, that was located in the Social services office.

I found newspapers back to 1900 that pertained to Social Services. That was back when it was called the County poor farm. People who received help from the County had to perform work on the farm or anywhere else that they needed help. There weren't janitors in goverment building, that service was provided by people who were on the government dole. Once a month they published the names of those who received welfare money and the amount they received and what it was to be used for. Tax payers could file a protest with the County and that was published the next month.

Example - John Doe received 40 dollars to buy his children shoes and to help pay the rent. The next month I saw that Jane Smith filed a protest about the money received by John Doe for shoes. She saw John coming out of the bar 4 times last week and when she saw his children at the grocery store none of them were wearing new shoes. The county asked John Doe to repay the money for the shoes by cleaning the railroad station three times a week for the next month. He was ordered not to enter any bar or liquor store in the County for one year.

Now that is the way the welfare program should be run.

[blanknoone]

96 hours a year? I wish I only had to do 12 days of work to pay for my annual housing!

[jtminton]

Many also worry that a good number of teenagers or young adults who may be living at home, jobless and perhaps rudderless, may not take the law seriously — thereby jeopardizing the entire household.

Well, you could try BEING A GOOD PARENT AND MAKING THEM DO SOMETHING WITH THEIR LIVES!

But what do I know?

[Libertarianize the GOP]

Two hours a week with one month off during the year is far to strenuous for a public housing recipient.