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From: mjc@cad.cs.cmu.edu (Monica Cellio)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Poor People/Lazy People
Message-ID: <1010@cad.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Tue, 16-Sep-86 21:01:28 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 16 21:01:28 1986
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From: mc68020@gilbbs.UUCP (Thomas J Keller)
>  Sure, there is work available for *MANY* (not all) who are able to work.
>  BUT, can one earn a LIVING WAGE doing the work that is available.  In most
>  cases, no.  According to every survey and study I have encountered, of all
>  the "new jobs" being created by the economy MOST are minimum wage jobs.
>  It is simply not feasible to provide for a family on minimum wage.

Fine.  Rather than not work and collect everything they need from welfare,
why don't they take the minimum wage job and only get in aid the difference 
between that income and what they "need" (by welfare standards)?  It's the
lazy people who decide they don't need to work *at all* in order to receive
enough money to live on who are ripping off the taxpayers.

And by the way, while it isn't possible to support a family on minimum wage,
I do know individuals who are supporting themselves on minimum wage or
thereabouts.

The implementation of the current welfare system leaves a lot to be desired
(as does, probably, the system itself).  The system does little to weed out
the lazy bums (who are probably a small fraction of welfare recipients), so
they take advantage of it.  I'm tired of supporting cheats and bums with my
money; I don't object to helping the genuinely poor.   (And yes, I *do*
consider it to be *our* money, not *theirs*.  They have no right to it; they
are merely receiving it as a gift.)

						-Dragon
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