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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

About 7 or 8 years ago the welfare system changed.  Supposedly for the 
better and the emphasis should be on the *supposedly.*

There is now a 5 year rule (after 5 years no more welfare), change of name 
(from AFDC [Aid to Families with Dependent Children] to TANF [Temporary Aid 
to Needy Families]), and a no additional children (if one gets pregnant 
while on welfare there are no additional funds for that child).

Well, in their infinite wisdom (yeah, right!), they also decided that folks 
couldn't stay in school for more than 2 years and had to work a job on top 
of going to school full-time.  Now, that might sound great but having worked 
with a lot folks and having worked in a counseling office of a high school, 
the reality is that two years at a vocational college won't get you the job. 
There are those pesky ol' pre-requisites before you can get into a program 
such as Registered Nurses, Radiology Technician, etc. and those 
pre-requisites can take you another year.  So, they are now requiring that 
they go to job skills workshops instead of working toward a profession. 
Plus, for some folks, going to college IS a full-time job.  And then you 
have the folks who dropped out and have to fnish the whole high school thing 
or get their GED because now they require that.  The colleges don't but the 
system does and that cuts into their two years.

The system is set up to push out Micky D workers and motel maids!  So the 
circle stays with them in one low paying job after another because if they 
make too much they loose the housing, food stamps, health care and child 
care.

IF the system got them through the voc training instead of the stupid little 
workshops (aka creating jobs for county gold bricks), then they'd get off 
the merry-go-round!

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene GeRue" <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
> Most of this post is sound, but it is incomplete. The decisions one
> makes most certainly cause results and further decisions needing to
> be made, further results, ad infinitum. But to understand a person we
> must go back to first decisions. Earliest decisions were made based
> on existing conditions and knowledge and desire. A decision made
> based on affluent conditions with strong, positive parental guidance
> and with a strong base of sound values will be a different decision
> than one based on squalid conditions, stupid parents and a value
> system based on easiest survival. Hence the need to "break the cycle"
> of living on welfare. If no other conditions are known to the
> decision maker, then decisions will be predictably bad.
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