NY candidate: Prison dorms for welfare recipients

[Liberal_in_LA]

NY candidate: Prison dorms for welfare recipients


Republican candidate for governor Carl Paladino said he would transform some New York prisons into dormitories for welfare recipients, where they would work in state-sponsored jobs, get employment training and take lessons in "personal hygiene."


Paladino, a wealthy Buffalo real estate developer popular with many tea party activists, is competing for the Republican nomination with former U.S. Rep. Rick Lazio. The primary is Sept. 14.

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Asked at the meeting how he would achieve those savings, Paladino laid out several plans that included converting underused state prisons into centers that would house welfare recipients. There, they would do work for the state — "military service, in some cases park service, in other cases public works service," he said — while prison guards would be retrained to work as counselors.


"Instead of handing out the welfare checks, we'll teach people how to earn their check. We'll teach them personal hygiene ... the personal things they don't get when they come from dysfunctional homes," Paladino said.


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He also defended his hygiene remarks, saying he had trained inner-city troops in the Army and knows their needs.


Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/08/21/politics/p070811D28.DTL&tsp=1#ixzz0xGwlkH9E

[RandomThoughts]

1. So they say they know how people should live.

Saying a person being dirty on the outside, is worse then their dirt on the inside.

That is the hypocrisy of it, and what the hippies were pointing out at WoodStock.

They were far cleaner then those with neat hair and neatly pressed shirts and pants in many cases.



But the whole article is a joke, and people should not be trained to other peoples standards until they can show they live up to a better standard.

Offer to teach and learn, but don't coerce with unjust prison.

[sandnsea]

2. Government guaranteed jobs and housing

Some people on the left want that too.

[cutlassmama]

3. Wow, just wow. So only poor people smell? I think not.

[kirby]

4. I agree...

We need to get some tea-party folks in there to educate them thar peoples on proper hygiene.