[GailA]

It amounts to about 15 mins or less a day...in several states it is mandatory that HS students 'volunteer' their time to their community in order to graduate.

[SC_Republican]

8 per month? Thats it?

[Fraulein]

What makes them think that they are 'working for free?'

[Tripleplay]

Betty Ward, deputy director of the Port Huron Housing commission in St. Clair County, said: "I think it's going to be a nightmare to track and enforce." Like Stennis in Detroit, Ward said she is hopeful that her office will not have to evict residents.But the potential is there. "One way to get out of it, for residents, is to get a job." Ward said. She said she expects about 50 of the 500 Port Huron public housing residents to be affected.

A good assessment of the work ethic of a government employee.

Paperwork for "50" people is a "nightmare"!

[Loyal Buckeye]

But, but, but where's the living wage and guaranteed health insurance in return for the 8 hours of work? ;-)

[zygoat]

Sounds like "Jewrell" isn't pleased that the reparations package that he has enjoyed all his life are now going to have stipulations. 8 hours a month? They should be required to work at least 50. Also, their taxpayer funded neighboorhoods should be spotless. This situation is what the Democrats have wrought-and what they will try to continue, all for votes.Sickening.

[nravoter]

"I don't like it. It's a Gestapo-type tactic," said Jewrell Rocqumore, a resident of the Douglass Public Housing complex on Detroit's lower east side.

Actually, Jewrell, forcing workers to hand over fifty percent of their income or more to support people who despise them is a little more gestapo-like.

In fact forcing the rest of us to work to house, clothe, and feed you while you relax at home all day really is a--dare I say it?--plantation-type tactic.

[Rebelbase]

"I don't like it. It's a Gestapo-type tactic,"

Ingorance flows like a river.

[Fzob]

"We will try to make the volunteer work as convenient as possible for them and something they can do on the premises. Since they will be working for free, we don't want them having to pay money to travel to work."

What waste of time and money for our congress-critters to be involved in. More fodder for the sheep so we believe they are acting in our best interests.

This program will quickly devolve into an exercise in paperwork. Folks who are unwilling to work ALWAYS have enough time to work the systems. It will take about two days before the paperwork will be signed and no work will be done. Within a year or two they will be getting paid for this 'work' once the lawyers sue because it is forced labor.

[mtbopfuyn]

Wanna bet how many file claims from supposed injuries from their voluneer "jobs"?

[csvset]

Perhaps we could outsource our public housing residents to China or India.

Surely, they could house them for far less than the state can.

[redrock]

Wow...what a concept!!!!

Actually WORKING to help pay for all the rest of us supporting them. Actually DOING something...

So when does the ACLU start the lawsuit????

redrock

[festus]

AND IF ELECTED.....

I promise to make all able bodied persons on welfare rise at the crack of dawn and work digging a hole of 4 by 4 by 4 and then fill it back in. Those who don't complete the task will be flogged.

If they don't like those terms then they are free to quit welfare and seek gainful employment.

Remember vote Festus in November !!!

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

This type of racially insensitive conduct on the part of government officials must be stopped!

[IronJack]

No doubt these parasites will scam their way out of their obligation; they're willing to spend 2 or 3 hours a day working to avoid work. But the theory is sound, and it's a step in the right direction. And in DETROIT no less!

[virgil]

An example for those who don't understand the relationship between slavery and welfare

[FITZ]

"To tell somebody they have to do it or leave? That does not sit good on the stomach," Rocqumore said recently during an interview in his tidy, one-bedroom, eighth-floor apartment.

Work should not be an option. This lazy clown can just get himself a cardboard box and live out of it if he thinks the world owes him a living.