Quote from l2tradr:
Aha. You might want to re-think this brilliant plan when you think of other costs such as building new housing for these people (as 80% or so live in URBAN centers) relocation costs and the fact that these people have families, for the most part. So take mommy away, send her 500 miles away or more to work on a farm while daddy has a job in the city and 2 kids to take care of?
You can buy a tent for 50 bucks at walmart. Theres your housing taken care of right there.
Period 1 of unemployment - no work required to collect benefits.
period 2 - 10 hours a week washing windows on public buildings required to collect unemployment
period 3 - 20 hours a week picking up trash required to continue collecting unemployement.
period 4 - 40 hours a week cleaning public toilets required to collect unemployment.
period 5 - 50 hours a week scrubbing sewer tunnel walls required to collect unemployment.
That doesnt do anything. You just have a cleaner city...it doesnt produce anything though. As for the families with children that want to stay in the city...Well what they should do is all the farmers that are growing cotton will then send it to some government factories in the city, where the people will make fabrics, produce clothes, diapers, bedsheets, and whatever else cotton is used to make. Maybe they could even make tents for the farmers to sleep in! The trick is to get people producing. We desperately need our manufacturing industry revived and this is one way to do it.
