"Just Wondering" wrote:

Require every EBT card recipient to show up for work -- some
work,
ANY work -- picking up litter, mowing lawns, painting fences,
pulling weeds, digging holes and filling them back up, babysitting
the kids of those who are out pulling weeds, supervising the litter
pickers. Can't do physical labor? Sit in your wheelchair holding
up a "People Working" sign by those who are moving rocks for their
EBT cards. We can exempt the truly disabled. Want a $300 EBT
card?
Put in 40 hours of work first. Don't like it? Then get off your
butt and find a real job.
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"Dave in Texas" wrote:

You'll never see it for the same reason you don't see prison road
gangs [think cool Hand Luke] anymore.
You put all those people to work in that manner and you put a
bunch of contactors out of business. And, those contractors that
get rich off government contracts make healthy contributions to
re-election campaigns.

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Here in California, convict labor is used to fight forest fires as
ground crews
(Pick & Shovel duty).

Goats are used to clean brush from the hill sides since you almost
have to be
a billy goat to gain access to much of the brush.

"Rent-A-Goat" has become quite a business.

Lew