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[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

I've been there. I have been forced into virtual slavery, at below minimum-wage pay, doing county work while county workers were being laid off. Manditory service for welfare recipients is just an extension of the slavery that inmates are subjected to, working for pennies per hour for corporations. It is wrong, reprehensible and holds out a hope for something that doesn't exist and never materializes: real jobs.

It is a repuke scam, nothing more. A vile and venal scam by people who, I believe, would like to make poverty illegal, while moving jobs out of the country. It is one of the major reasons I despise them.

Oh, and one more thing: Back in 2K1, while I was on welfare, I was trying to get funding to return to school. I was told I was quite qualified for the funding, but it never materialized, in spite of promises. Two years later, the county, which controlled the block grant, was ordered by the state to return the money. Seems they sat on 95% of that year's educational block grant, hiding it away in a bank well-removed from the area. Seems they wanted it to be forgotten so they could plow it under, into nice patronage projects. If not for a state audit, they might have succeeded.

Vile. And Venal. Repukes.