1,800 on welfare may be avoiding work

The Boston Globe ^ | September 26, 2005 | Scott Greenberger

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

do you know that forty years ago, this was true of most white women?

Yes, but their husbands did. I don't care if people want to work or not, but if they don't, I'm not happy about contributing my hard-earned money to pay their bills.

[cwiz24]

Saracasm!!!???!!!

[SengirV]

Add a couple more zeros to the end of that number and we can start a REAL dialogue.

[caver]

And Ted Kennedy is proud!

[softwarecreator]

But do you know that forty years ago, this was true of most white women?

And how many of these "white woman" were collecting welfare for most of their live's while having illegitimate children?

[softwarecreator]

Add a couple more zeros to the end of that number and we can start a REAL dialogue

You got that right ... this appears to be the PC version of this story.

[softwarecreator]

Welfare should be temporary, like unemployment benefits.  It's pathetic how many generations in one family have been on welfare all their lives.  And to reward woman to have illegitimate children by giving them more benfits is disgusting.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

Make welfare as hard to get as a building permit.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

Yes, but they were not being supported by the taxpapyers for generations and having handfuls of children out of wedlock who were then in turn supported by the taxpayers. Most of those women were raising children and supporting a family. Duh- Think about it.... BTW- there are people of all skin types who defraud the welfare and disability insurance systems.

[nonliberal]

Slow news day?

[GOPJ]

I'm shocked. Really. People who are given handouts by the government don't want them to stop? Mindblowing and unexpected.

In another unexpected event, the sun set in the West.

[strange1]

In other news:
The sun will rise tomorrow AM, and set in the PM.

[RobbyS]

Forty years ago, many houswives would have been very nervous about going to work outside the house.

[RobbyS]

Forty years ago many women who had never worked outside the home were greatly intimidated by the thought of having to go get a job. That, of course, is different from thinking that they should disdain work, but not all women on welfare have that attitude.

[pterional]

It is hard to get.. These people would rather stand in line and fill out reams of paperwork than actually go to work.

The biggest problem is these people have no skills, education, or work ethic virtually making them unemployable.
YOU WOULD NEVER WANT THEM AT YOUR BUSINESS..

[stbdside]

And in other news:

Scientists have discovered that the sun is hot.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

I was a job coach for felons and people getting off of welfare for about five months- until I just quit social work all together.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

Mostly all of the women who are on welfare do have the attidude that work is beneth them. I will give you 2% who don't.

There is a world of difference between a homemaker of 4o years ago, who may have felt inadequate to join the work force and a crack head with 7 kids from 7 daddies-who can't get motivated to stop lazying around.

Dichotomies,yes, but the welfare rolls are more full of the later.

40-50 years ago it was harder for a woman to get a job than it is today.

Now there are numerous incentives to hire women and women get handouts and handups all over the place to join the work field.

[RobbyS]

2% is a lot of people. Those have lived in the 9th ward all their lives may unaware of how much more opportunities are to be found in the "outside" world. Of course, I will concede there is the problem of values. Many years ago, in the 1950s, I think, I read a story about a young liberal in the Delta area who inherited a large farm from his daddy. He was familiar with the place and was displeased with the old shacks that his black sharecroppers lived in. a whole family in one or two rooms. He determined to build them all new ones, four room houses with windows,screen doors and a stove and refrigerator. Within months some were wrecks, with many screens doors knocked out so that the woman of the house could sweep the trash out. A few houses were still in pretty good shape. but he was, quite understandably disappointed by the general results of his liberal reforms.