Courts order community service all the time. Why not make the welfare system require community service hours in order to recieve benefits?
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This seems like a good idea and has been instituted in some states. In fact, in Michigan, there was a program called "welfare for work."  The program require welfare recipients to work in order to receive welfare payments and gave government subsidies to employers who hired these employees.  The program was full of abuse. Employers took advantage of very cheap labor and employees were not paid enough to meet the minimum requirements of life.

 

In one case, a single mother who was a part of the program had to leave her child alone while working long hours, traveling to and from jobs by buss and not being paid enough to support the family.  The ultimate result was her child involved in a shooting because of the lack of supervision and ability to provide parental care.  Here is a short exerpt from the Michael more film "Bowling for Columbine" which discusses the program and the problems with it.

 

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Why cant we reinstitute the CCC that built many of our state parks which are now in disrepair and could use those paid by our welfare system to rebuild that which was built through nessessity so long ago. In our current economy we cannot afford to hire when we already pay persons whom could build our infrastructure back.
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Roads and bridges were supposed to be included in the president's stimulus bill. As he himself said some of the so called "shovel ready" jobs which were supposed to be in the stimulus bill were not as "shovel ready" as they should have been.  I think special interests took over the entire stimulus bill and wasted almost a trillion dollars of our money. Ridiculous!
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