home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!ibmpcug!mantis!jonathan
- From: Jonathan Egre' <jonathan@mantis.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Re: Drug testing and welfare
- Message-ID: <gJFmoB1w165w@mantis.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 13:07:39 BST
- References: <24169@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Distribution: world
- Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.
- Lines: 27
-
- fofp@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Holmes) writes:
-
- > No, just that the Guvmint shouldn't be handling [welfare]. Folks could take
- > out unemployment insurance.
-
- Is this supposed to be serious? Do you seriously expect insurance companies
- to grant affordable unemployment insurance policies to the sort of people who
- are likely to become unemployed?
-
- > For the ones that never were employed, well,
- > if they want our money they can ask for it and let us make a decision on
- > the merits of the case. That way we can cut out the Guvmint as an
- > expensive middleman.
-
- You mean you want to increase the number of tramps on the streets hassling
- you for money by a factor of, say, twenty? And you don't expect the
- frequency of muggings and pocket-picking to increase?
-
- -o-O-o-
-
- There is ALREADY a simple, effective and CHEAP mechanism for making sure that
- welfare recipients spend their welfare money wisely: welfare payments are
- so low that if the recipients don't spend them wisely, they starve.
-
- --
- Jonathan Egre' = jonathan@mantis.co.uk = jonathan_e@cix.compulink.co.uk
- Word for the day: "peritoneum". Include it in all your conversations today!
-