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Karder hit the nail on the head if you ask me. Instead of having "unemployment" or welfare, have an employment program. If the government is going to give this money to someone, lets make the person earn it. You create jobs (sort of) and put money back into the economy. I'm not saying that we should go so far as to take jobs away from regular employees such as bus washers, janitors at city hall, etc.... but I can relate this to something we are all familiar with. It takes about 2 months to get your CHL these days, right? The background checks take a while....but the other part of it is that it takes forever to sort all the applications, enter the information, and get it all logged because the state is swamped. Why not mail recipients of welfare paperwork and access to some type of data entry program? It's not stringent labor... and other than those extremely handicapped can do something like that. And DRUG TEST.

I don't want to make a generalization and sum everyone who has received some type benefit into the worthless, wasted category. Like TAM pointed out, sometimes these programs are used for their intended purposes....but then again, if we can all think of someone or some story that we are familiar with this being abused than it's obvious we need to fix the system. I'm sure we could never completely do away with all of the riffraff in the system, but I think that every single penny counts. Consider this, one person who is abusing the system is using money that could have been put elsewhere. The money that said abuser is using could be put to another month of work for a teacher who has been notified he/she would be losing their job. 3,000 dollars is a whole months pay for a teacher, right? Anyone know how much welfare/unemployment pays?

I'm getting frustrated thinking about this. Grr.

Nice. Think we have enough to make a recommendation to our representatives yet? LOL

pbwalker wrote:I think there should be more to it. Of course, this is one of the areas where I can make Ann Coulter look like a Commie...

Drug test...random and frequent. A monthly review of their finances. You must work for the government while you are receiving benefits, or be in some kind of vocational education course. Mandated personal fiscal responsibility courses to continue benefits. If you have more kids, benefits stay the same. You better be driving a piece of garbage car...none of this Lone Star Card user who drives a $40,000 car. No more than one year of benefits, in a LIFETIME! You must prove your citizenship before you receive one penny. And to add icing to the cake, any benefits you use are deducted from your social security balance.

I will be voting for you to take Rick Perry's place when he leaves Texas to run for Prez.

Florida is going to start requiring random drug tests for those on welfare in July. Of course some folks have already started calling for blood--I see no reason why. A lot of folks who work for their money are required to drug test, I don't understand what the fuss is about. The big problem is that these screenings are based on a "stereotype," that all folks on welfare are drug users.... whatever. It's money given by the government, and just like any investment the government makes I think that they should check on where there money is going from time to time.

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