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wolfy42 posted...

It's seriously not that hard. They already have employees set to handle the current setup of giving away free money, and ensuring everyone isn't taking advantage etc. Switch them over to handing out jobs instead.

No, those people would still be in charge of handing out money and protecting against fraud. That part doesn't stop. The money is still coming from the government. You'd need more people to find positions, and people to schedule the hours that everyone is supposed to work. That's an entirely different skillset, and would not be in the agreement for the existing employees.

wolfy42 posted...

Fed min wage is EXACTLY what you would pay, and you would only allow them to work enough hours to get the benefits they would have gotten for free. So basically if Min wage is $8, and they would have gotten $300 in food stamps and $500 in cash before, they need to work 100 hours in a month to get the same amount now.

It sounds like you're aware of how much extra work would be required if you want to still do all the original calculations and then add the factor of placing them in jobs and limiting what they can work on top of that.

wolfy42 posted...

Meanwhile you would just make all current gov jobs more efficient (honestly almost all of them are under staffed and slow as molassas because they have no incentive to work fast). So you would have many intern like jobs where people just help the current employees. You would even create new jobs (with some of the money you would save due to people actually getting other jobs now that they can't get free money), such as free child care for everyone etc. Current people in child care positions that are licensed would still have jobs running the centers, you just would have way more of them, so all children could be watched and anyone who wants to work can (without worrying about paying to have their children watched all day).

Office space is a thing. You can't just add 50 additional people into an office as interns. They need a place to sit, computer equipment to work on. They'd need to greatly increase the amount of workspace they have, which costs more money.

These daycares you suggested will cost more money between land, building costs, utilities, etc. And I'm just laughing at the idea that everyone will magically be fine leaving their children with a bunch of people on welfare. The screening process would have to be quite rigorous (which costs more money).

Sounds like your plan is likely to double the cost of distributing welfare checks to people.
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