How many are in favor of bringing back the "Poor" or "Work" houses for poor people? (drugs, regime)
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Please don't lie. From many of the posts I've read discussing the homeless, the "hoochie" mamas and guys "throwing dice" with their "40 oz of old english", it seems like a good deal of you would be in favor of it.
A poorhouse or workhouse was a government-run facility in the past for the support and housing of dependent or needy persons, typically run by a local government entity such as a county or municipality.
In England, Wales and Ireland (but not in Scotland[1]) a poorhouse was more commonly known as a workhouse. In early Victorian times (see Poor Law), poverty was seen as a dishonourable state caused by a lack of the moral virtue of industriousness (or industry as it was called). As was depicted by Charles Dickens, a workhouse could resemble a reformatory and house children, either with families or alone, or a penal labour regime to give the poor work at manual labour and subject them to physical punishment. As the 19th century progressed, conditions improved.
The term is commonly applied to such a facility that housed the destitute elderly; institutions of this nature were widespread in the United States prior to the adoption of the Social Security program in the 1930s. Facilities housing indigents who are not elderly are typically referred to as homeless shelters, or simply "shelters," in current usage.
Often the poorhouse was situated on the grounds of a poor farm on which able-bodied residents were required to work; such farms were common in the United States in the 19th and early 20th centuries; it could even be part of the same economic complex as a prison farm and other penal or charitable public institutions.
I'm more in favor of not giving them anything at all, including a place to live. Maybe a work house for those who accept the help under conditions requiring labor, but even that's a stretch to me.
There are many who would be in favor. I just hope they realize that if they're not part of the 1% or have GUARANTEED inherited wealth laying around this could be their fate.
Agreed. The conditions in those places were horrible.
People on here have describe welfare and foodstamp recipients as lazy, good for nothings who shouldn't even be allowed to breathe the same air with the "working folk".
There has ALWAYS been a PERMANENT UNDERCLASS in Europe and America due to no fault of their own. Alcoholism was here long before drugs and just like now, crippled many from being able to hold down a job. Many couldn't even make it in these workhouses either.
If you cut an adult off from cash, foodstamps and deny them housing, even shelter assistance, what do you think will happen to them?
They'll either leave, continue to beg for change, prostitute, get arrested for being poor (vagrancy), steal or die from the elements.
So would an old fashioned workhouse be just what these people need? No one would care if they were beaten or abused. It's not like they're REAL HUMANS anyway.
Don't worry slavery is making a huge come back globally...get use to it..My oldest son who was living in Cyprus for four years just returned...He said that incomes have been slashed to one third...in the period of just a few months- plunging the place into instant poverty...He had to reverse immigrate...The poor guy is beside himself...He had to leave behind his new family...a wife...and a beautiful infant...Now he has to work his ass off and save money to save his family in order to bring them home to the economic safety of Canada.
The world has been taken over by criminals....Americans had better take notice that the international elite who control the money supply have a problem...one that has been over looked..Those in Greece and those in America are all chronic gamblers looking to gain something for nothing- and by gambling - whether it be the richest of the rich...or the poor..They have squandered the global life savings of a whole planet....Gambling with the lives and prosperity of others is what caused this.
People fail to realize....That those in control are human and are prone to human vices on a grand scale...God does not play dice with the universe- man does.
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