It makes you feel better but doesn't help me

It's remarkable how the left always seems to offer everything under the sun to people... except a works program.

As for me, I was raised in an impoverished area and ironically the only way to get a job was to avoid doing things the legal way.

I worked for cash, did my own unregistered gardening and decorating service, worked for restaurants and fast food with no paperwork, sold ebay items at the markets...

If I followed the law, I'd still be poor

Good points. I remember my father hiring people from halfway houses to work for his construction company or on the farm. Many of them told me there was not enough work for people that needed a second or third chance and dad understood them.

Dad had a knack for accepting people for where they were and for trying to help them go up from there. I also remember him paying cash and working some of them every other day, he kept two crews going at a time, that way if they partied the money away that night, he still had workers the next day.

Dad told me that his father was a sharecropper, he worked when and where he could, did what he had to do and kept them all feed. Looking back, I wish I had asked more questions, I'm sure I would be a better person for it.