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   
      
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