Working for your welfare check America's largest city is looking to kill two birds with one stone.

  It's too bad this can't happen here in Massachusetts where the layabouts don't do a darn thing to better themselves.

 Here is the story
(NEW YORK) New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority wants to revive its participation in the city's Work Experience Program - which makes the unemployed toil for their benefit checks.
"This is a program that has a proven track record of doing three things: providing low-cost cleaning help for the subway; providing job training to people who need it, and leading directly to full-time employment for many of the people who participate in the program," MTA spokesman Jeremy Soffin said.
The MTA eliminated 173 cleaner positions last year in a series of budget cuts that slashed a total of about 3,500 jobs.
Critics say the plan is 'forced labor' because when recipients apply for welfare they didn't apply for these jobs. Some have even compared the program to slavery.


Commentary

The critics in the last line of the story have to be leftists socialists that don't want people to go to work.As for comparing the aforementioned work program being called slavery GIVE ME A BREAK!