Just damn. 1 day. That’s it. 1 day. As one poster put it, the dumb broad stood at the welfare office for 6 hours and that could have been a work day. 1 day. No food.
She has six kids. Do you think she would be able to get a job in one day? Everything she has known her entire life has been that the system delivers, and it sometimes delivers faster if you push it and complain.
What do you expect her to do! What would you do in her shoes?
The frightening thing about Matt's essay is that everything follows pretty well *if* the cards do not work for an extended period.
Therefore, it is in all our interests to insure that the cards work at least somewhat, and do *not* go out for extended periods. It may even work better if the recipients get used to the cards not working for a few hours, or a day at a time. That would build some resiliency into the system.
This is a very bad scenario that we *do not* want to happen. Welfare reform moved a lot of people out of welfare. The crime rate is going down, which means that the number of really nasty hard cases out there is likely going down too.
We can work our way out of this problem without a crash and CW2. It can be done.