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Mar 3 11 9:31 PM
ButIWantedAPony wrote:HoneyBlue65 wrote:Jordie0587 wrote:I'm a pretty staunch libertarian. I keep nixing ideas for my Tx govt class because I talk myself out of them as infringing on people's rights.Soooo, if you guys don't mind.... Have you ever thought to yourself "there should be a law about that?" What are some things you'd put in a bill to your state legislature about?I'm not sure how it works out, but my most brilliant idea so far is requiring community service for those who accept unemployment/TANF benefits/foodstamps. Hopefully to help mitigate the cost of paying for certain state functions. Instead of paying people to pick up trash, why not have those who are able bodied and unemployed pick up trash until they find a job? My mom thinks any parent with a child enrolled in a public school should have to volunteer 8hrs of their time per year to school functions.I'm blanking out on the rest. I'm like, THE worst brainstormer ever so any help would be awesome... plus this could make for some interesting conversation This over and over. I've had this idea a lot, and if I can have it, I'm astounded why any high-level govt. employee can't have it ('cause obviously they haven't!). I think this would end most "welfare moms" types who want just push out babies and reap the benefits; I also think it would help morale as far as having a job, any job. If you have six kids and can't afford a babysitter to go to work, why don't you watch other kids so those moms can work? If you can't watch kids (I couldn't, in this scenario), then the rate is 50 cents or a buck an hour, so you can go do some other job, like the ones no one else wants to do--picking fruit, or washing porta-potties, or being candy stripers?)I'm not quite sure I understand this line of thinking. If we're already paying someone to pick up trash or whatever other job you're envisioning, what becomes of them if we get rid of their job in favor of having people on welfare do it? It strikes me that we'd just be trading one unemployed person for another, but maybe I'm missing something.
HoneyBlue65 wrote:Jordie0587 wrote:I'm a pretty staunch libertarian. I keep nixing ideas for my Tx govt class because I talk myself out of them as infringing on people's rights.Soooo, if you guys don't mind.... Have you ever thought to yourself "there should be a law about that?" What are some things you'd put in a bill to your state legislature about?I'm not sure how it works out, but my most brilliant idea so far is requiring community service for those who accept unemployment/TANF benefits/foodstamps. Hopefully to help mitigate the cost of paying for certain state functions. Instead of paying people to pick up trash, why not have those who are able bodied and unemployed pick up trash until they find a job? My mom thinks any parent with a child enrolled in a public school should have to volunteer 8hrs of their time per year to school functions.I'm blanking out on the rest. I'm like, THE worst brainstormer ever so any help would be awesome... plus this could make for some interesting conversation This over and over. I've had this idea a lot, and if I can have it, I'm astounded why any high-level govt. employee can't have it ('cause obviously they haven't!). I think this would end most "welfare moms" types who want just push out babies and reap the benefits; I also think it would help morale as far as having a job, any job. If you have six kids and can't afford a babysitter to go to work, why don't you watch other kids so those moms can work? If you can't watch kids (I couldn't, in this scenario), then the rate is 50 cents or a buck an hour, so you can go do some other job, like the ones no one else wants to do--picking fruit, or washing porta-potties, or being candy stripers?)
Jordie0587 wrote:I'm a pretty staunch libertarian. I keep nixing ideas for my Tx govt class because I talk myself out of them as infringing on people's rights.Soooo, if you guys don't mind.... Have you ever thought to yourself "there should be a law about that?" What are some things you'd put in a bill to your state legislature about?I'm not sure how it works out, but my most brilliant idea so far is requiring community service for those who accept unemployment/TANF benefits/foodstamps. Hopefully to help mitigate the cost of paying for certain state functions. Instead of paying people to pick up trash, why not have those who are able bodied and unemployed pick up trash until they find a job? My mom thinks any parent with a child enrolled in a public school should have to volunteer 8hrs of their time per year to school functions.I'm blanking out on the rest. I'm like, THE worst brainstormer ever so any help would be awesome... plus this could make for some interesting conversation
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Mar 3 11 9:35 PM
ButIWantedAPony wrote:But "Instead of paying people to pick up trash...." implied to me that the notion is to replace labor we're *already* paying people for (i.e. jobs that already exist) with welfare work. But if the idea is bringing back New Deal-style make-work projects and get those people working on things that aren't already being done, that makes sense to me.
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Mar 3 11 9:46 PM
shiggins wrote:Oh I like this one. Its sad that the drinking age is higher than the sign up age for the military.
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Mar 3 11 9:56 PM
"But it doesn't matter cause I'm packing plastic and that's what makes my life so fucking fantastic"
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Mar 4 11 6:29 AM
msmith wrote:History people: is that why they lowered the drinking age to 18 for a while during Vietnam? The draft? Or am I making that up?
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Mar 4 11 7:00 AM
Brian Rad wrote:All that e.e. cummings and Jackson Pollack and Yoko Ono crap.
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Timid Wild One wrote:Brian Rad wrote:All that e.e. cummings and Jackson Pollack and Yoko Ono crap.e. e. cummings is not crap. You, however, are a philistine. Stick to what you know.
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WhoKilledBambi wrote: legalize and regulate prostitution and illicit drugs. less jail time, more restorative justice.
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