[reaganaut1]

I would be ok with conditioning current welfare benefits on recipients meeting their responsibilities, but I don't want extra money (soon to come from taxpayers) showered on people just for doing what most taxpayers do on their own.

[GeronL]

If you pay people to be poor, there will always be poor people

[tatsinfla]

no wonder these cities and states have money problems...

[goodwithagun]

Great! Now let’s start paying them for flushing the toilet and washing their hands after they use the restroom.

[eastsider]

... average of $3,000 per family ... 2,400 participating families

$7,200,000

[ChicagahAl]

"Bloomberg's administration said it is too early to know whether (giving people free money) is a useful tool to fight poverty."

And the definition of insanity is.....

[buccaneer81]

The city's experimental anti-poverty program that pays poor New Yorkers for good behavior like seeing the doctor and attending parent-teacher conferences handed out an average of $3,000 per family in its first year.

As Chris Rock said, "As a parent, you're SUPPOSED to do that!"

[ninergold3]

We are a single income family - by choice - so I can stay home with the kids. However, things would be a bit easier if I got paid for being a responsible adult & parent. *Sigh*

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Training people to be sheep, to be dependent on the government, and to be poor always.

[CindyDawg]

Wouldn’t it be cheaper to just deduct money for bad behavior from their benefits? If a conference missed...25 dollar rent the next month from free housing. I guess perks are nice though. Too bad everyone gets them but the working class.

[dfwgator]

Reminds me of the chapter from Rush’s book about Mayor Dinkins, “Now We Thank People for Obeying the Law.”

[fso301]

While these type things seem instinctive to conservatives, they are alien to people that have only known dysfunctional upbringings.

This is a problem with the conservative message in that it amounts to preaching to the choir. With 40 percent of childbirths now being out of wedlock, the situation for conservatives and the nation at large will only grow bleaker unless conservative messages are changed to better address current realities.

For people that never knew a two parent family or even a nuclear family, conservatives need to develop some "helping hand" quasi-welfare-socialist programs designed to steer people already on the wrong side of the tracks toward a better way of living.

[nothingnew]

True. This is insanity.

FMCDH(BITS)

[happinesswithoutpeace]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_NYC

[the invisib1e hand]

@ss-wiping-state alert.

[b4its2late]

Bloomberg at his best.

[Above My Pay Grade]

Talk about a nanny-state. Does the mayor give these 18 to 80 year old “children” a pat on the head, some milk and cookies, and a loving “good boy/girl” with their cash?

[Hoffer Rand]

These are the same people who don’t pay taxes and who qualify for Earned Income Credit, so they’re already getting “free” money from the government.