Replying to a message of mark lewis to Bob Ackley:   
      
    BA>> IMO one way to eleiminate the welfare 'problem' is to put a firm   
    BA>> time limit on how long one may draw it - say one year.  [...]   
      
    ml> that may or may not work... there is a variation of that being done in   
    ml> several places... i'm not aware of the numbers before and/or after so   
    ml> cannot say how they look...   
      
   I discovered some thirty years ago that in the Midwest - or at least in this   
   area - there were 'poor farms,' owned and operated by the various counties.   
   People who were 'homeless' could live on those farms - and work to operate   
   them.  Of course in those days farming was much more labor intensive than it   
   is today.   
      
   There is an operation over in Red Oak called 'Nishna Productions.'  Nishna   
   after   
   the beginning of the name of the river (Nishnabotna) that flows next to the   
   city.   
   This operation hires or finds jobs for physically and mentally handicapped   
   individuals,   
   and provides (dormitory style) housing and food for them.  Among other things   
   they   
   run the can and bottle recycling center in Red Oak, and the folks working   
   there are   
   right nice people.   
      
   --- FleetStreet 1.19+   
    * Origin: Bob's Boneyard, Emerson, Iowa (1:300/3)