NEW YORK — Republican candidate for governor Carl Paladino said he would transform some New York prisons into dormitories for welfare recipients, where they could work in state-sponsored jobs, get employment training and take lessons in "personal hygiene."
Paladino, a wealthy Buffalo real estate developer popular with many tea party activists, isn't saying the state should jail poor people: The program would be voluntary.
But the suggestion that poor families would be better off in remote institutions, rather than among friends and family in their own neighborhoods, struck some anti-poverty activists as insulting.
Paladino is competing for the Republican nomination with former U.S. Rep. Rick Lazio. The primary is Sept. 14.
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They should also drug test ANYONE that accepts public money. I believe in welfare, but not as a substitute for education, training, and work ethic. We have created a social group of welfare recipients and encouraged them to stay on welfare. Not only that, but we are now into the second and third generations!
ReplyDeleteWhat about all the kids they have?
ReplyDeleteSounds like a plan to me.
ReplyDeleteThe ellipsis (...) in the original story indicates that there's something missing from the full quote.
ReplyDeleteCould there have been other things mentioned that were not as demeaning as "personal hygeine"? Like: budgeting; shopping for and cooking real food instead of relying on crappy fast foods that make us fat and dumb; child rearing classes; after-school educational enrichment; adult education; job assistance and daycare, etc?
Voluntarily leave a place where generations of able poor go nowhere in their lives except to create more poor? Or sign up to engage in learning in a protected environment, learning that will uplift themselves and future generations?
We will never break the chain of poverty by throwing money at it. The yoke of the poor on the middle class will slowly kill this county. The only way is to try something we haven't tried before, not more of the same ineffective entitlement policies.
I'd like to see the rest of the plan!
ACORN said the same thing about the "Workfare" programs in NYC where welfare recipients were required to do public service jobs in parks,etc.Public assistance is supposed to be a safety net not a life program.
ReplyDeleteif im not mistaking in singapore they have no welfare everyone works somewhere to gat it maybe thats what they should do in the usa many homes need to be fixed and streets need cleaning. theres plenty to do for them to earn money.
ReplyDeleteWhere is all of the funding going to come from for the state sponser jobs. employment training and lessons on personal hygeine. This is nothing but a doorway to the new Plantations on this country.
ReplyDeleteSomeone was looking for the "detention camps". Well here is an example.
ReplyDeleteCan't make enough to live on? Go to jail.
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ReplyDeleteWhat about all the kids they have?
10:15 AM
Another liberal Left Wingnut heard from!!