[118] in libertarians
Re: EVI-news-bits
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin THEOBALD)
Thu Aug 18 15:41:34 1994
From: theobald@duke.cs.mcgill.ca (Kevin THEOBALD)
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 1994 15:34:01 -0400
In-Reply-To: Vernon Imrich's message [EVI-news-bits] as of Aug 18, 14:20
To: vimrich@flying-cloud.mit.edu (Vernon Imrich)
Cc: libertarians@MIT.EDU
| * The Boston Globe reported in February that Eulalia Rodriguez and her
| extended family receive government assistance payments totaling nearly
| $1 million a year. Rodriguez, who has been on public assistance for 26
| years, has 14 children on welfare, 74 grandchildren, and 15
| great-grandchildren. Said she, "I'm sick of people acting like I'm some
| crook. We've got a lot of kids to feed." Rodriguez lives in a
| six-bedroom, three-story apartment in a gated Boston community called
| Harbor Point. [Boston Globe, 2-20-94]
If you think *that's* rich, you should see how Quebec tries to *force*
welfare recipients to be lazy. A front-page story in yesterday's Montreal
Gazette talks about a welfare mother who does volunteer work at her son's
elementary school since she can`t get a regular job. Quebec wants to
take away her payments because of this "job."
| In Cleveland, Ohio, sheriff's deputies disclosed in January
| that 91 of the 330 fugitives rounded up during stings in 1993 were on
| welfare -- receiving an average of $330 a month. Regulations prohibit
| cross-checking fugitives' records with welfare records. [Washington
| Times, 4-29-94; AP wirecopy, 1-10-94; ]
Isn`t it funny how they won't cross-check records when they want to give
your money away, but they *will* cross-check records when they want to
*take* your money (e.g., checking parking tickets when you renew your
driver's license, or taking tax refunds to pay other debts).
| * At a Jacksonville, Fla., City Council discussion of new park sites
| recently, a councilman told a councilwoman that she could "kiss my
| posterior," and she responded by threatening to "beat the hell" out of
| him. [American City & County, February 1994]
Sounds like the Taiwanese legislature!
- Kevin
