 the definition of cruelty is four years of free money i was just thinking you know scott what detroit really needs a racebaiting communityorganizing type to come into the city and stir things up for no good reason besides the president and voila we have a visit from jesse jackson  activist the rev jesse jackson and us rep john conyers ddetroit led about 200 marchers at the state s midtown detroit offices thursday in a protest against a new law that will kick thousands of residents off welfare on oct 1 starting saturday cash assistance benefits will end for about 41000 michiganders including an estimated 29000 children who have received it for four or more years how cruel only being on the dole for four years mean old republicans mean old governor snyder what s the big idea trying to get this state back into some semblance of economic prosperity republicans just don t like poor people the next thing you know we ll be importing sharks to put into the pools of detroit schools and i was just thinking to myself scott why don t they get jobs sure highpaying jobs are certainly scarcer across the state but there are still jobs out there if you want to work but like magic gwen says this it s easy to say get a job but where are the jobs said protester gwen gaines a member of the michigan welfare rights organization i know i m as surprised as you are we have an organization called the michigan welfare rights organization but they fight for the rights of people like angela nelson angela nelson 50 a mother of five received cash welfare assistance on and off in her adulthood amounting to about 10 years with four of her children and three grandchildren living with her the wayne county community college student doesn t know how she s going to pay bills 10 years of welfare assistance four children three grandchildren in the same house with her i wonder if her children work and help out if they re old enough to have children of their own surely they are old enough for a job we don t have details of course the point of this article is to point out how mean the republicans are and the sad state that so many people find themselves in but 10 years of welfare four children three grandchildren in the same house with her i think there are bigger problems in our society when four years or ten in some cases of free money taken forcibly from other people is not enough  