On Tue, 4 Aug 2015 18:43:20 -0700 (PDT), "
wrote:

On Tuesday, August 4, 2015 at 6:45:09 PM UTC-4, Gunner Asch wrote:

One suggestion is to require the individuals "stuck" in
these jobs or "unemployable" to attend paid basic
literacy/numeracy and urban survival skill [including money
management] classes, i. e. "a hand up, not a hand out.".

Excellent suggestion!!!

Gunner

It is a good suggestion for helping those who will benefit from help. Unfortunately there are a good many that are not able to benefit.

And then there are those that are able to con the system. I have a friend who was a draftsman. His hobby was caving. He lived in a trailer and was not married. He was laid off from a drafting job and then lived on unemployment. And I think he went to a federal training program to became a machinist. So he just did a lot of caving and did not want to find a job. When all the bennies ran out , he went back to working as a draftsman. He could have easily gotten a drafting job, but just took the opportunity to go caving. He said the federal training program was filled with those who did not want to learn.

Dan
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Indeed, but no solution [short of forced labor/re-education
camps, which are expensive to run and most likely not cost
effective in the aggregate] will be 100% effective. The
hard data and empirical studies are lacking to "prove" the
point either way, but educated is always better than
ignorant.


--
Unka' George

"Gold is the money of kings,
silver is the money of gentlemen,
barter is the money of peasants,
but debt is the money of slaves"

-Norm Franz, "Money and Wealth in the New Millenium"