It's weird, Janie...

Back in '68 I worked for the local CAP program as a "community organizer" (horrors) and was a assigned to "Hillside Court", a housing project in South Richmond and was told to organize a WRO (remember them??? Welfare Rights Organization) among other things...

Then about 6 years later I had to work 6 months in "eligibility" while waiting for a certain "adult service case worker" job came up that I knew was coming up and knew I'd be hired for (another story)...

But it was very weird to be on both sides...

But during my "eligibility" days, yeah, we had to make "home visits" to verify the "no man in the house" requirement...

Welfare has always been the whipping boy of the right wing...

Hey, if you look at the the entire federal budget this is a joke... We blow more money in Iraq and Afghanistan in one day then we spend on the entire welfare programs in an entire year...

Yet, we have to have the right wing use these kinds of ***red meat*** non-issues to fire up their base???

B~