by Pops » Mon 25 Jul 2011, 18:25:40
I'm with you Gollum, I have no problem with service, but paying someone to dig holes and fill them in is more for making people like Cog feel superior than addressing any problem, in another year the TEAs will return to being just biter old white guys squeezing their pennies.
Anyway, it makes more sense to show the unemployed person how to apply for a job, do an interview, learn a new skill or if all else fails put a caulk gun in his hand and send him around making all the homes Fanny and Freddie own weather tight.
The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves -- in their separate, and individual capacities.
-- Abraham Lincoln, Fragment on Government (July 1, 1854)