Me: (off the top of my head) Basically begins as unemployment benefits and slowly drops over time.

Months 0-2 - 100% of living expenses

Months 2-4 - 80% of living expenses

Months 4-8 - 60% of living expenses

Months 8-12 - 50% of living expenses

You get the idea. Slowly drops from there until none provided after 2 years. Living expenses are calculated by the average cost of living in your county, but cannot exceed the 80% percentile for county CoL within the state)

This will provide benefits to those who are out of work and trying to find work, but obviously provides incentive for working over not working as there is no endless welfare.

I'm sure there is a million reasons to find exception but whatever.

What are you ideas?

If you don't work, you don't eat.

If there are people without jobs and you must give them money, then I would do it like this.

You come into the employment center. You are assigned a job for the day. You would be doing things like cleaning trash out of ditches, sorting recyclables, maintenance at the sewage lagoon, working on the garbage truck, cleaning bathrooms in public buildings, etc. All the crappy jobs that we have miscellaneous public employees doing now. You are supervised by public employees that are currently doing those jobs (there would obviously be a decrease in the number of public employees as you only need so many supervisors).

If you have kids, you bring them with and they go to the daycare center, where other people who are without jobs are employed watching the kids. Other people are "working" by being cooks or whatever and preparing meals that will be eaten by the kids and workers. No fast food, no pizza, no soda just nutritious foods.

At the end of the day you get paid for the hours of work you put in that day.

Come back the next day and repeat until you get a real job.

Problem solved.

J

No work is beneath anyone,,,

If you have to flip burgers at night and clean toilets during the day,that's what you do instead of welfare.

Imho,

Welfare is for people who are really deeply in need.Not for someone who feels they are too good for a particular job..

wheel,

SOLENT GREEN? Also solves the hunger problem.

Sorry, but I see alot of Help Wanted adds all over the place. But since they are lower wage jobs, people don't want to work there. I am self employed, there is no help for me if I don't have work. Believe me, there has been weeks where I have had almost no work. You will never catch me on the government welfare roll. I learned at an early age, that sometimes you have to do something you don't want to do, if you want to survive.

I say, if you aren't working, and want to get a check from the government for unemployement, then you need to be doing something. I say bring back the "Civilian Conservation Corps" that President Roosevelt started. Any able body person in order to get a check, must work here 4 out of 5 days a week. The 5th day, should be spent in job training, or out interviewing for jobs. I think we could put people to work building parks, trails, ballfields and other project that would be put to use by the public. I wouldn't have a time frame for participating, I think until you found work, you should be able to take part and get a check.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_Conservation_Corps 

On the other hand, I do like your idea, but most of the right would rather starve out the working class, than come up with any real solutions.

I dunno about that. Idi Amin Jr. and the Democrats seems to be doing a whole lotta staving-out of people all on their own.

After all, when you're spending money you ain't got in the first place to pay the living expenses of people you've personally thrown out of their jobs, at one point or another the Ponzi scheme is going to collapse.

Then again, destroying the entire country so that a few people don't lose their homes and cars is obviously preferrable to the alternative.

Leftist liberals are sub-human.

Dude, save your vitriol for someone who cares. There are jobs everywhere. As has already been pointed out, they are not the desirable jobs or glamorous jobs, but they are there.

If someone wouldn't take a job because they feel that it is beneath them and would rather go on welfare, screw that. If you can't take care of yourself, that is too bad. There is nothing that says that society has any obligation to take care of you.

I will never be "in the line" as you put it, because I will always have a job and will always take care of myself. I don't expect a dime from the government or from you.

The current statistics for my county are as follows:

9000 available jobs/positions

3000 people collecting unemployment/welfare

How the f**k does that work?

Nothing makes me more angry than a person who feels that they are owed something, or that feels that they are entitled to something. You are entitled to the freedom to go out and make your own way, nothing else.

J

Comrade, are you still on the dole?

2. The absolute most that Florida unemployment pays is $275 per week BEFORE TAXES!

http://www.floridajobs.org/Unemployment/uc_claims_app_forms.html  and is also provided in the Florida Unemployment Compensation Program Booklet which is sent to all claimants. Individuals claim weeks of unemployment on a bi-weekly schedule and answer questions concerning their availability for work. At any time during the claims series, the claimant may be requested to submit their list of job contacts"

I stood in the unemployment line once back in 1983 due to economic circumstances. I was in Oregon and the Spotted Owl put an end to logging and the town I was in lost its Weyerhouser mill and the pretty much destroyed the economy for quite some time. When i was standing in the unemployment line, it was one of the worst moments of my life since I had worked since I was a kid doing something (paper route, mowing lawns, painting, bagging groceries, etc). For some reason, I was very uncomfortable and felt nausiated just standing in line and I swore I wouldn't do it again. So, I went down to the recruiters and joined the military - the very last job I ever wanted to do. I had no desire to be part of the military because my brother came back from Vietnam a shell of a man. But, I had a wife and two kids and they had to eat so I sucked it up and enlisted. Sometimes desperate people do what they don't want to do just to survive.

I'm not bragging and I'm not complaining. I'm just stating my experience and how it affected my life. I know I could go out right now and get a job if I wanted. It may not be my dream job and it probably won't be a lot of fun. But, I'm willing to bet I can find work doing something because I'm not afraid to do anything (except the Deadliest Catch - I can't do that......).

I hope the best for everyone......

Actually, the jobs would exist under a "workfare" type program.

Face it, the government is already paying the people to essentially do nothing. Under workfare, the same dollars would be paid but the poeple would be earning it by doing necessary jobs that we don't have the money for now (BECAUSE of the money going into social programs).

I'm a firm believer in a strong government that assists the individual to get back on their feet.

I don't subscribe, however, to the welfare lifestyle.

And two years on unemployment is welfare.

With workfare, our parks and streets would be clean.

Our buildings would be well maintained.

Daycare could be provided for those with young children.

Food could be cooked and served for the working class who still can't afford a healthy meal.

I don't know why it is perceived to be "evil" to expect people to work in order to receive assistance.

Why don't we already have workfare?

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Because politicians prefer to have as many people on the dole and under their thumbs as possible. The last thing they want is for people to begin working and earn their way, because then they may start to develop self respect. Then they will start to question why they are in the position they are in and why things are so bad. Then they will realize it is because of the federal rulers wanting it that way, and they may try to throw off the yoke of oppression.

Just hypothesizing of course.

J