Originally Posted by
Gnostic Yevon
Yeesh does it have to be like this?
What I'd do about welfare is essentially give people who get laid off a chance to go back and get retrained for a different skill, so as the person can get retrained and be a contributing member of society. The reason behind this seems pretty simple to me -- the job skills required change almost constantly. We just don't need as many telephone receptionists in America, because our call centers are in India now. Same kind of thing with manufacturing, those jobs are gone. So the people who had those jobs need to be trained to do something that will give them a decent paycheck, i.e. repairing PCs, network admins, or accountants or something.
The problem with straight up providing $0.00 in aid is that the person will have an income low enough that they'll probably still need assistance. The problem with generous aid is that it becomes too comfortable, in fact far more comfortable than if they were working.
So if a person were willing to work 20 hours a week for the government, then i think it is only fair to help them get trained to get a decent paying job.
