[120] in libertarians
[theobald@duke.cs.mcgill.ca: Re: EVI-news-bits]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (damartin@ampere.mit.edu)
Thu Aug 18 16:10:55 1994
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 1994 16:06:48 -0400
From: damartin@ampere.mit.edu
To: libertarians@MIT.EDU
>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 New York, the city prosecuted a woman on welfare because
she had managed to save a few thousand dollars by spending her money
very carefully. She was saving it for her kid's education. She was
forced to spend it or lose her wlefare payments.
-David Martin
