Posted on 08/22/2010 7:26:10 AM PDT by JohnLongIsland
NEW YORK (AP) — Republican candidate for governor Carl Paladino said he would transform some New York prisons into dormitories for welfare recipients, where they would work in state-sponsored jobs, get employment training and take lessons in "personal hygiene."
Paladino, a wealthy Buffalo real estate developer popular with many tea party activists, is competing for the Republican nomination with former U.S.Rep. Rick Lazio. The primary is Sept. 14.
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OH jeez
Ha! Sounds like a good idea but I’m sure the ACLU would have something to say about it!!
This is the beginning of the end of his candidacy folks!
He must be an idiot. The MSM is gonna tear him apart.
Paladino hasn't got a prayer. His radio ads about using eminent domain are bad enough, but worse are the parts where they say that there are only two candidates to choose from and Cuomo is bad.
There are three. Lazio isn't going anywhere if he loses the primary because he has the Conservative line.
Which, essentially, means that Paladino has already lost.
A Republican can't win statewide office in New York without the conservative line (no guarantee of success if they have both, but no shot of winning without it).
There's an alternate strategy of pursuing the Liberal line, which would deny that to the Democrat candidate (who won't get the Conservative vote), but that's not going to happen here.
It'll be Cuomo or it'll be Lazio, but it WILL NOT be Paladino in November.
Ho wsoon before the welfare recipients form a union and demand a pension?
They empty the mental institutions and now they want to fill these? Release the crazies and warehouse the lazies?
What is this guy, a ‘rat plant? Or some other kind.
Move the welfare recipients to the Ground Zero mosque!
And Loozio will get spanked by Cuomo. This will be a bad year for the GOP at the upper reaches of the ticket in NY.
Carl Paladino is his own man. He doesn’t comport to the standards of a traditional candidate. Lazio won’t beat Cuomo. Paladino won’t beat Cuomo. But at least, Paladino would make Cuomo a hell of a lot more uncomfortable.
AAAAHHH! RACISSSST! < /sarc >
Didn’t say he wouldn’t, but he’s the only one of the two with a shot at this point. If he loses the GOP primary, Cuomo wins, and that’s it.
“What is this guy, a ‘rat plant?”
My thought, exactly. If it sounds crazy to conservatives, imagine what a field day they’ll have in the press. I can’t see the guy winning at all.
Actually a nice warm cell is probably better than living on the streets and safer too. Why not let the homeless have the same benefits as prisoners? 3 hots a day, showers, TV, internet, weight rooms, security, free medical care, etc?
I also think drug tests should be mandatory for all welfare receipients.
A good question to ask is why there are empty prisons to fill welfare recipients with? How about we have the “original intent usage” and put violent offenders in there.
‘Course the ACLU will beef about that too...
Dormitory living for welfare recepients should be mandatory. What is wrong with making them work instead of sucking the system dry? Welfare fraud is probably 50% in this country which would put a lot of states back in the black if it was stopped. In California the welfare benefits are akin to a $30.00 per hour job. Where is the incentive for these welfare cheats, who have no pride or dignity, to work for half that amount?
They'd want congressional representation for their 'district'...can you imagine another Maxine Waters?
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