Demitria Thraam

A member of the Philip Greenspun's Homepage community since July 3, 2003

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July 3, 2003, on Welfare Reform:
I like your nonjudgmental attitude. Just give the people what they want! Give them the choice to do whatever they want with it. And if drugs were legalized the money - while perhaps ending up keeping a few brains happily out-of-it on occasion - would not end up in the hands of organized crime, but instead be recirculated into commerce. Drug users would quickly find that if they want to have a home, food AND their drugs, they'll have to learn to make more money on their own than the welfare they get. That would be a motivating experience. Seriously. One of the worst things about mental-incompetence welfare is that if you earn any funds at a job while on it, you get that docked from your check. Thus there's not only no motivation to get your act together with regards to jobs, there's absolutely no good reason to besides it being "the good thing to do". Doing good things is all good and well, but if getting a job's just going to mean working for hours for no further reward than s...