Excuse me for a moment while I deter from my normal programming to step up on my soapbox.
As I've spent the summer outside sweating, along with my husband, mother-in-law, sister-in-law and toddler, weeding, watering, and picking the garden so that we can have fresh food on our table and canned goods to supplement us this winter, a thought occurred to me. Why, when our country is in such a monetary detriment, are we handing out money to able-bodied people? I'm not talking about the poor in health or physically disabled, but the people with strong back and workable hands?
Instead of enabling the weak of mind and motivationally challenged, how about giving them a community garden? Create a space, perhaps a rooftop garden, renovated vacant lot or people's own back yards, and teach them to garden. Provide them with seeds and instructions and mandate a certain amount of time that each person must work. Then give them canners and cans and have them store up for the winter. Sort of a don't work/don't eat policy. I figure if its good enough for my family....
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