Quote Originally Posted by Idaho View Post
Thank god - a right winger who has actually experienced the world, as opposed to all these educated single men with comfortably off families talking tough about benefits.

The workfare idea is nonsense. You are sounding like politicians. Saying that people signing on can magically be given a 'job in the community'. What does that mean? Who would implement it? Who supervises/schedules/monitors/plans all this temporary labour? And if this work really needs doing, why not employ people to actually do it? It's just popular sounding nonsense.

Employing people to "actually" do the job would cost more tax money. The idea is to mobilize un or under employed government check recipients to do some of the odds and ends work that always gets shunted aside in the effort to keep budgets down. Administration of such a temporary labor pool would be, of course, a potential sticking point. I am not sure exactly how U.S. states or cities who use workfare managed to administer it.