[lbo-talk] Food stamps

[Wojtek S]

[WS:] It is not just food stamps, but a warped delusion of "independence"
and "freedom." I recently spoke to an unemployed worker in Michigan who
claimed to lose his jobs because of his lung disease which he supposedly
contracted on the job.  When I suggested that he should sue his former
employer, he vehemently  rejected the idea claiming that this was his choice
to take that jon and thus his responsibility, not that of the employer.  He
rejected th eidea of wrkplace safet in general, he belived that it is
ultimetaely the worker's choice to take a job or not.

It seems that this kind of tjhinking is quite widely spread here.

Wojtek

On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 1:22 AM, Joanna <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:


> The quotes from former "middle class" people seem to suggest that they
> still need to differentiate themselves from the lazy people on food stamps.
> Interesting.
>
> "A recent study by Mark R. Rank <
> http://gwbweb.wustl.edu/FACULTY/FULLTIME/Pages/MarkRank.aspx>, a professor
> at Washington University <
> http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/w/washington_university/index.html?inline=nyt-org>
> in St. Louis, startled some policy makers in finding that half of Americans
> receive food stamps, at least briefly, by the time they turn 20. Among black
> children, the figure was 90 percent."
>
>
> http://community.nytimes.com/comments/www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/us/29foodstamps.html
>
> Joanna
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