Text 6303, 33 rader
Skriven 2008-02-08 06:30:58 av Richard Webb (1:116/901.0)
   Kommentar till text 6298 av Bob Klahn (1:124/311)
Ärende: Pro-Choice
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Bob Klahn wrote in a message to Dan Ceppa:

BK>  Also, when Newt Gingrich, I believe it was,
BK>  proposed taking children away from welfare mothers and
BK>  establishing cadillac level foster care, he should have
BK>  suggested spending that money to improve foster care and support 
BK> adoption instead. Then add in trying to see to it that poor  women
BK> get the support, and training, they need to get jobs. Then  make
BK> sure the jobs are there.

There's the rub, training for meaningful work that pays a living wage that can
allow her to provide for those children. This means a massive effort to train
these folks, many who are high school drop outs, some with little actual
intellectual potential.  then when you've trained them assuring that the jobs
they can get will provide adequately for them and their offspring. Moving them
from welfare to work only accomplishes anything if child care provided is safe
and adequate; if the job provides for adequate medical care, etc.

I think we've been around this one before though.  IT means a community that
actually cares about the people living in it, including the employers. tHis
means that employers will have to quit treating these service employees as
disposable resources to use and discard if they can find a way to get it done
much cheaper.

some of the welfare mothers we rented to when my lady and I
managed those apartment complexes in new Orleans weren't very trainable
however.

Regards,
           Richard
... Amazing how much tape is on a 10" reel when it's not.
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