Should able-bodied, mentally capable adults who receive welfare be required to w

[opebo]

No.  Though I would encourage them to take up a hobby...

[opebo]

....Maybe in another 50 years we will be able to support a certain percentage of the population as pure lay-abouts, but I don't think we've reached that point yet.

Surely you jest - we've supported the owning class as purely parasitic layabouts for generations, dead0man.  And in a very expensive style too I might add.

[opebo]

They should be required to work, or look for work (and I mean really look, and maybe have to go somewhere for 8 hours a day to do it), or be training for work.

That's fine as long as we force you lazy rich to work as well - no retirement, no inheritance.  Just off to the work-camps with you.

[opebo]

They should be required to work, or look for work (and I mean really look, and maybe have to go somewhere for 8 hours a day to do it), or be training for work.

That's fine as long as we force you lazy rich to work as well - no retirement, no inheritance.  Just off to the work-camps with you.

I have neither retired (never plan to really), nor inherited much to speak of. What work camp do you think you should be sent to, since you in fact basically do meet the "requirements?"

Alas I don't!  I go to work every day (to my everlasting embarrassment and shame!)

[opebo]

the problem is...people like torie cant grasp the idea that many poors have real barriers to finding employment.  bad credit, gaps in employment, no skills, criminal records, etc etc.

All of which are caused by the class system, not by anything attributable to them as 'individuals'.

[opebo]

And assuming that I am "rich," why don't you think I am really working, or did really work? Care to elaborate on that?

Just remember that what you were doing was accessing privilege granted to you by your class status. 

So, just don't take any credit for it, and realize that everyone making less than you almost certainly worked much 'harder'.  The rewards come from the class privilege, not the something innate about you as an 'individual'.