“I know guys who work construction who quit so they can draw unemployment to hunt in season.” It was the same with disability payments, she said: “A friend’s daughter has a husband who works long enough to get hurt and puts in for disability. My own cousins, uncles, and brothers have done it. Sometimes there weren’t jobs; then it’s great to have welfare,” she allows. “But when there are jobs, why couldn’t they mow a church yard, or fold clothes at a care center, or clean out the school bathrooms? We pay them to do nothing—first through TANF [Temporary Assistance for Needy Families] and now
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