Welfare and the work ethic.

[TheRealMafoo]

To all the people who are talking about health related issues requiring assistance.

That's a different issue. And even with those problems, they can still work. My ex volunteers at a home for the disadvantaged. She sponsors a woman. Goes to her house three times a week, makes sure she's clean, fed, and dressed. Then a bus comes and picks this woman up for work. Companies around the area pay 2-3 dollars an hour for there work. (they pick up trash, or do something else equally unskilled). All the money earned goes to the organization taking care of them.

The cost of there living is obviously more then there income, and the government subsidizes the rest. But it's still a win-win solution.

I am all for helping those who can't help themselves. The other 98% of welfare can go work or starve.

On a side note (and I know this is anecdotal, but it made me shake my head). During Katrina, they were showing some of the people helping the people trapped. This one man was carrying out a little girl, and was heading back on to look for more, when they stopped him to ask a few questions.

Basically, he had been at this for 10 hours. When asked if he saw the water rising, he said he was sleeping in his bed on the front porch of the house he stays at and saw it rising.

This man was so poor, he lived outside on the porch of someone's house (and didn't work), yet when he needed to, he worked is ass off for 10 hours, and was not only willing to work more, was wanting to end the interview as fast posable so he could get back to it.

If this man realized working = living, he would have that work ethic all the time, and I am sure live a much better life then sleeping on someone's porch.