... between the ages of 18 and 62 who is not legally disabled will have to meet the new regulations. People enrolled in college or job-training programs would be exempt...Jacqueline Gonzalez, who lives in Troy's Griswold Heights apartments, said she won't leave her 8-month-old to perform community service. The mother of three said she won't leave a child with a baby sitter until he or she is old enough to tell her if anything bad happens in her absence.
"If I had a baby sitter, I'd be out there working," she said. "My whole family is in New York City. ... I am not going unless they are ready to provide child care for my kids."...
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So what does Pansy Moss think?
It is dumb to make residents put children in daycare or with a sitter to do things for example, volunteer at a hospital. I mean, if the idea is to "pay" for public housing, well, much public housing is substandard to begin with. Volunteer/community service should be done in the neighborhood and the complex. Perhaps repairs, gardens, something that will directly benefit the residents and not leave mothers looking for baby sitters. This will do more to help "pay" for the cost of living in their residence, in my opinion.
One of the things I cannot stand about the ghetto is what makes the ghetto a ghetto is not the economic level of the people, but the lack of pride in themselves and their surroundings. One does not have to be economically upper class to have class (nor does having money automatically mean someone carries themselves with class either). While economics is clearly a factor, there are many people who earn small incomes who sweep their walkways, clean up there areas, bathe their children and recycle their cans. I often wish people realised they are worth more regardless of where they live or how much they make.
One thing I also have no understanding about when it comes to issues such as these is many of these public housing residents are single Moms and their children. To those of us enlightened pro-lifers, it is no secret that Planned Parenthood targets lower income minority communities, yet the results of contraception and abortion campaigns are usually single parent homes. On the, average, single parent families earn a lot less income than traditional families making it necessary to use social services. After many programs such a PP encourage single families, these families are punished for trying to survive. This makes no sense to me, but what do I know?
I've posted on this many times. The way we treat the poor in this country is criminal. We give them just enough to survive, which saps them of any desire to go work for a living. It is the new form of slavery - economic slavery.
Keep them (YES - THEM) tied to the ghettos with just enough income to assure that they won't actually compete with the rest of us for jobs, but not enough to give them any real independence.
To make sure they stay down in the ghetto, let's give them mediocre (at best) educational opportunities while we take away any chance of practicing real discipline in the classroom by tying the teacher's hands. Let's stop teaching proper English and substitute various "social engineering" programs designed to make them feel good about their status rather than spur them to better their condition.
And rather than put forth the effort to help them learn, let's just lower the bar so that it looks like they've learned something. It's pitiful. And criminal, in every sense of the word.
See Fred Reed's columns here and here. As Fred says, "There is a price to pay for enstupification."
Yes, what you described is why I homeschool. I also do not understand the welfare system. You cannot work to receive welfare, yet welfare does not pay much and a small job where someone to apply to welfare in order to supplement, you get the point.