TheHeretic -> RE: Government in action: "Homeless" defined (2/18/2012 10:08:04 PM)
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ORIGINAL: vincentML Your view, H, is grounded on the erroneous stereotype of slothful, uncaring people lacking basic skills of living, as was promoted by 1980s reaganesk propaganda. I don't know why you are making such an assumption, Vincent, but my view is grounded in my view. A healthy chunk of the clients I work with in my new career are involved in various programs, which is very educational (California programs, for the most part, but since we have roughly 1/3 of the national caseload, among our 10ish% of the national population, it's a good class), and on my last job, I was a trainer for new hires. When I talk about people coming in from gov't sponsored programs with deficient fundamental skills, it's because I was dealing with people with deficient fundamental skills. "Be at the yard at 7:00 for equipment check, and the morning safety briefing," doesn't meant "roll in at 7:15, and tell stupid lies about why," on a regular basis. Trainees are going to make dumb mistakes, and are expected to learn from them. Answering the question of, "what happened," with "the shit just broke," doesn't suggest they are learning. Especially when they break again it the same way, and answer again, the same way, after I had gone over the system with them again. I'm suggesting that everyone the boss hired through a program that got him a tax break was a crappy candidate, but those were recurring issues. I suspect you are the one Googling as we go (quick, what does SNAP stand for?), and working from your own set of more bleeding heart filters and knee jerks on the subject. Obviously, from your table, the states are calculating who goes into what category, differently, unless nobody in Illinios is getting welfare while their SSDI claim is used as 2-3 years worth of federal bureaucratic make-work. Of course, that's where President Obama had bragged of "fixing" welfare reform, so maybe we need to read a bit more into the 84% unemployment rate, they do report. Pee in a cup, or leave the job application process is the norm. Get over it. Don't like it? Donate to NORML, and change the overall scheme of things.
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