Name:   Talullahhound - Subject:   Maine reminds that some people don't want to work Date:   2/10/2016 8:08:44 PM

MM, consider this.  A person on welfare may have young children, and in order to work - and lets be realistic, it's going to be at some minimum wage job, they have to find and pay for child care.   I wonder if they don't think they would be basically working for nothing. 

I'm not defending welfare or those that collect it.  We've all heard the stories of women popping out babies with multiple men to get their welfare.  Most of them are "veterans" of job training programs, but truthfully, they are never going to find jobs, because they are not educated and are too  ghetto for anyone to want to hire them. 

I had a friend in CT (but she had gone to Auburn) and was from GA.  She was a MSW.  She could not find a job in GA, she had a fear of taking her boards.  She went in lived with her college roommate, but still couldn't find a job.  She went on foodstamps and public assistance.  She finally passed her boards, and got a job, but it was a very low paying job and I think she still collected foodstamps.  Eventually, she got more and more depressed about her life, and in the end, she took her life.  I'm not saying every case is like hers, but I wonder 1/ how many other cases are like hers; 2/ how many people on welfare are basically unemployable. 

Unfortunately, I don't think you're going to be able to walk it back and the best you can hopeful for is to find a way it doesn't expand.