Welfare Overhaul Likely to Be Dropped

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Full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/15/AR2005121501953.html

Seemed a little too much for any Christian to swallow.

no problem then.

seem to consider the production and training of the next generation of citizens and workers to be a silly, self indulgent hobby of silly, self indulgent little women, not worthy of any support at all.

Above all, they seem to feel that women can put the kids into bureau drawers, go to work, and then take them out and play with them when they get home.

It's a truly bizarre view of the real work of the human race, and we need to end it. Women with children are already working, damned hard, and on call 24/7. If it looks like they're doing a bad job, then education is the key, not withdrawal of support.

as well as their mothers.

with people being required to do something for the public assistance they receive. A person who feels responsible is likely to act responsible. Flame away.

but doesn't act "responsible." So much for that argument.

There are still places where there is no affordable daycare, and some women are forced to leave their children alone or with someone they are not sure about.

pay for childcare?

A woman who is forced to work for minimum wage as a price for having housing, but then who is denied babysitting care for her childcare, is nothing but a slave for the Non-Christian GOP employers.

She works for the welfare check. Period. That's subsistence for slave labor. Please be clear on that.

is not necessarily the worst thing," back in 2003 when funding cuts for childcare for working welfare moms was being considered. Yeah, Rick, make those kids suffer a little by being left home alone. That'll teach 'em to be born to poor single moms.

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Do you want to work 40 hours a week at a shit job while taking care of 3 kids by yourself without daycare just to get the government to kick in enough to so your family can eat two decent meals a day?

Do you think that's conducive to successfully raising a family? I guess there's always night school, right?

It's because after the aliens abducted them, the implants made them that way.

If a person fell off the dock because she wasn't looking where she was going, would you let her drown because she didn't have enough personal responsibility? How about if she walked off the end of the dock with two small children? Oh I know -- throw the life jackets in the water and make her swim for them. That will teach her.

Most public assistance recipients want to take care of themselves and families. TANF in fact already stipulates work components for certain recipients. If someone is able to work 40 hours a week for TANF benefits it would be a much better investment for all of us to get that person a job in the private workforce. The reason that doesn't happen is that most public assistance recipients have multiple barriers to employment (child care, transportation, remedial education needs, to name a few.) "Personal responsibility" doesn't mean squat if you're an 8 year old with a mother who left middle school to give birth and lives in an area far from the jobs. You can say that the mother acted irresponsibly, but restricting her access to public assistance affects the innocent child.

Anyone receiving welfare should be willing to contribute in some way. To make that feasible, though, more childcare money is going to have to made available.

Stress "some."

... like affordable and available childcare. I'm glad she's a Repub -- we need the moderates to rediscover their hearts and brains; we need allies in this struggle for human decency and humane laws.

I have no problem with "workfare" as such, but one of the biggest holes in the system is the way childcare keeps ending up as an extra and not an absolute necessity.

Women with children who have to work (and face it, that's most of us by now) are damned if we do and damned if we don't, and that goes double for anyone needing public assistance.

Hekate

Welfare "overhaul" indeed!

I thought that was called a "wage".

so they can have even more babies that they can't find childcare for.

they like it when we have nowhere to turn.

all moderates.