I can only share with you what I know. I work for a private company and I handle the TANF caseload and FSET(Food Stamp Education and Training Program) in Florida. According to the TANF legislation signed by Clinton(election year) required cash assistance recipients participate in community service or educational activity. The timeline is 48 months. My folks are at Goodwill(or similar agency) over 30 hrs per week to do their community service. So, that kinda squashes some misconceptions I hope.
Second, the FSET program is now currently voluntary but soon to be mandatory in Florida. It requires Food Stamp recipients to either job search and provide proof or be engaged in a community service activity or educational activity.
People aren’t necessarily sitting on their asses like people think. Yes, I think 4yrs is too long for Temporary Cash Assistance. And yes, I hate my job and despise getting up every morning and dealing with the majority of these morons..
Thanks for your input. And you have my sincere sympathies for your daily grind.
Obviously, there are plenty of exceptions to generalizations, especially some of the ones I make. /grin
Still, I believe that we must (but we won’t) rethink our approaches to helping and dealing with the poor. We need to start over at the most basic and fundamental level. Tweaking a flawed concept won’t make it less flawed.
I guess you manage to smile when you cash your paycheck though, don't you?
Just curious, do you not consider yourself a poverty pimp?
Who pays your private company to deal with those “morons”?
Why even work there, if you hate it?
I am going to guess your “company” is mostly funded/paid for by my taxes, and that your job is just a “make work government project”, that really would be better handled by an unpaid volunteer, who would probably do the job better than you do, or at least with a healthier attitude towards the people who are forced to deal with you, to qualify for “benefits”.
I hope Gov. Scott cracks down hard on the NGOs that make millions of dollars by pretending to “help the poor and disadvantaged” in Florida.