ML>ml> BA> IMO one way to eleiminate the welfare 'problem' is to put a
ML>ml> BA> firm time limit on how long one may draw it - say one year.
ML>ml> BA> [...]

ML>ml>that may or may not work... there is a variation of that being
ML>ml>done in several places... i'm not aware of the numbers before
ML>ml>and/or after so cannot say how they look...

ML> JB> It worked in the mid 90s and has worked before.  If people have
ML> JB> the choice of starving or working, I trust they will make the
ML> JB> right choice.   If we took money out of the equation, what would
ML> JB> they do ?

ML>barter... i've been bartering my skills and knowledge for years... in
ML>some cases, i get this thing that many people are obsessed about
ML>called "money"... in other cases, i get room and board... in still
ML>other cases, i get food or cigarettes... sometimes i even gain
ML>friends...

ML>what would you do if money were out of the equation?

Bartering and similar.  My point was less about what economic system we 
would move to but more of the fact that if we peel away money, the true 
impacts of the activity become apparent.  So if you didn't have to give 
an abled person welfare money for them to subsist but instead you had to 
give them an equivalent amount of your food, shelter and time, would you 
be so willing or would you hold them more accountable ?  

Jeff

CMPQwk 1.42-21 9999 
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