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August 25, 1995
READERS'
OPEN FORUM
Double Solution
Editor, The Press-Enterprise;
One hears so much about overcrowded prisons and welfare waste these days that maybe we should put the two problems together in order to more easily get a handle on how to straighten this mess out.
For instance, why are a majority of the abusers of welfare given the dole in the first place? Just because a young girl decides to abandon any common sense and becomes a mother at 15 or 16, she shouldn't automatically become eligible for money that the workers paid in. Maybe when someone applies for welfare, the interviewer should ask why they think they need it. If the person says they are disabled, then the county hospital could check them. If it is legitimate, then they get the money.
If they are not disabled, then they should put them to work building prisons. I'm sure there are many types of job skills needed to build a prison. And who knows, maybe while they are building it, they will see enough to know they don't want to live there. At any rate, they will be too busy working to become criminals in the first place.
Joe Young
Corona
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