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Subject:	Re: Is it ~OK~ for government to subsidise profit making industry?
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Thu, 21 Jun 2001 14:11:12 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes: > Occasionally, I am in favour of government intervention in the employment > market. Despite that, when I read the story below, I thought this was the > one area where companies and individuals did not need handouts / subsidies. > Can it really be ~OK~ for government to subsidise profit making industry(?) > in this way? > > The Story: > California tells jobless 'Go east' and pays for the journey for relocation > In the Depression years of the 30s, tens of thousands of unemployed left the > Dust Bowl of America in Oklahoma and its neighbouring states and headed west > for California in search of work, their plight captured by John Steinbeck in > The Grapes of Wrath and by the haunting photographs of Dorothea Lange. > > But now the impoverished unemployed in California are heading east - > encouraged by a controversial scheme that gives people on welfare a one-way > ticket to leave their homes and look for jobs elsewhere. > > The rest is here: > http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4206891,00.html My hunch would be that the State is trying to protect it's own interests. It's probably cheaper to move the welfare recipient to another location with an open job market than try to find them a job in an area with a tight job market, and supporting them the whole time. I don't necessarily agree with it, but it does make sense.

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		Re: Is it ~OK~ for government to subsidise profit making industry?
(...) Related: I had heard from a friend of the family when we lived in NY that NC had a history (in the 60s and 70s) of giving NC welfare recepients one way bus fare to NY. This got the person or family off the NC welfare rolls, and NY welfare (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: Is it ~OK~ for government to subsidise profit making industry?
(...) I agree with you. Like you say, it does make some sense. If there were jobs in that state it would make more sense (to me) to re-train them rather than export them. However, if you read the whole text, it is clear that they are moving from (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Is it ~OK~ for government to subsidise profit making industry?
Occasionally, I am in favour of government intervention in the employment market. Despite that, when I read the story below, I thought this was the one area where companies and individuals did not need handouts / subsidies. Can it really be ~OK~ for (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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