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    Default CLAWS: Creating a Livable Alternative to Wage Slavery

    This post is actually due to reading one of Lena's postings from her "Hobo Stripper Blog" in her sig. One of the archived articles from "Ecofeminist Musings," iirc. Although I actually consider myself to be pretty conservative, I do agree with her comments re: 40 hours of wage slavery to keep a roof over your head and have enough food.

    So, in that vein, and because I found the old URL for the now defunct "Leisure Party" page while cleaning out old saved URLs, here is the link for CLAWS, which is interesting whether or not you agree with the concepts they present there,

    http://www.whywork.org/

    Still have yet to read most of it myself, but thought a number of people on SW might find this of interest.
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    Default Re: CLAWS: Creating a Livable Alternative to Wage Slavery

    hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers must already be charter members of CLAWS. They have discovered that by choosing not to work at a 'regular job', they become eligible for ...

    - free health care a.k.a. MedicAid
    - vastly reduced rental prices at 'public housing' apartment complexes
    - reduced (subsidized) utility bills for heating and air conditioning
    - free food via the Food Stamp program
    - various levels of cash assistance via various 'Welfare' programs

    all they then need is a comparatively small source of 'undocumented' income to maintain a very acceptable lifestyle.

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    Default Re: CLAWS: Creating a Livable Alternative to Wage Slavery

    Quote Originally Posted by Melonie View Post
    hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers must already be charter members of CLAWS. They have discovered that by choosing not to work at a 'regular job', they become eligible for ...

    - free health care a.k.a. MedicAid
    - vastly reduced rental prices at 'public housing' apartment complexes
    - reduced (subsidized) utility bills for heating and air conditioning
    - free food via the Food Stamp program
    - various levels of cash assistance via various 'Welfare' programs

    all they then need is a comparatively small source of 'undocumented' income to maintain a very acceptable lifestyle.
    I tend to agree with one of my friends who looks upon both corporate welfare and taxation by various levels of government as forms of economic/financial parasitism. E.g. unlike the U.S. Congress, most of us don't get to set our own hourly wages or salaries, complete with automatic "stealth" raises. We also don't get to opt out of Social Security and have our own private pension fund. Therefore, I pretty much agree with my friend re: the analogy of parasitism, in the case of corporate welfare, as well as government. Even though I've not provided an example of corporate welfare in this post.

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