Do Liberals hate Giuliani because he had welfare recipients work for their check?

Question

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/welfare/stories/wf081397.htm




New York's Workfare Picks Up City and Lifts Mayor's Image

By Judith Havemann
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, August 13 1997; Page A01
If you want to see an industrial-strength version of welfare's future, walk along the egg wholesale and textile warehouses on the waterfront in Brooklyn and watch Ellamae Harden trudge toward the finish line of her workfare shift.

Wearing her regulation Day-Glo orange vest, Harden sweeps methodically toward Sanitation Garage No. 7, bracing her trash cart against the downhill slope as she whisks up a crumpled wrapper and soft drink cup.

Harden's hair is listing forward and sweat beads her upper lip as she shakes final bits of rubbish into the waiting garbage truck and makes for the supervisor's office to get a $38 credit toward her welfare check.

"The minute I get home, these shoes come off, I get in the shower and hit the bed," she says.

Harden, 42, is a draftee in New York City's war against dependency, one of 38,000 welfare recipients required to work off their monthly checks by sweeping streets, cleaning parks and doing other municipal chores. Beneficiaries with children are required to work 20 hours a week, and New York's special state "home relief" recipients – jobless men and women who have no dependent children – are required to work off their cash grant, housing allowance and food stamps at the minimum wage.

And ever since Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani expanded the minuscule program known as workfare into a monumental work force the size of Nordstrom's, the city has been getting cleaner, the mayor more popular, and the typical resident more satisfied with city services.

Welfare recipients, meanwhile, are learning the value of showing up on time, following directions and working cooperatively – all skills the city maintains will help these workers land permanent jobs in the private sector.

"If the government is going to provide a benefit," said Anthony Coles, a senior adviser to Giuliani, "it has the right and the obligation to ask for something in return."

Answer 1

9/11

Answer 2

You are blinded by myths casted by the media and the aristocratic right wing force run by corporations known as the tea party, and many other propaganda outlets.



Liberals in no way promote laziness. Many of those on welfare have jobs that don't pay enough for them to feed their children and pay their rent. Taking away people's financial needs is dishonorable and represents selfishness at it's finest. You have no idea what these people have to go through and you are sitting here talking down on them and disrespecting them. You are also slandering those with a liberal ideology. That is partisan and it's immature.



People who don't work that receive welfare are disabled or handicapped. Everyone else has to work to receive a welfare check. This article is noting exclusive. So stop heralding this article as something that has never happened before.

Answer 3

No I hate him because he went cheap on communications devices which led to so many fire and police officers getting killed on 9/11.

But what really got me disgusted with him is that he paraded his mistress in front of his wife and kids, and kicked them out of the mayors mansion, and put his whore in.

His kids still don't speak to him.



I'm tired of Republican men on their third wives who think they are for family values because they keep marrying their whores.

Answer 4

Yes. Once they found that out, they started to hate him

Answer 5

Oh.... you don't think republicans on welfare? think again!