<p>I was just thinking &quot;You know Scott, what Detroit really needs a race-baiting community-organizing type to come into the city and stir things up for no good reason. Besides the president.&quot; And voila, we have <a href="http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20110930/NEWS01/109300321/Jesse-Jackson-joins-protest-against-Saturday-s-cash-assistance-cutof">a visit from Jesse Jackson</a>:</p>
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<p>Activist the Rev. Jesse Jackson and U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Detroit, 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.</p>
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<p>Starting Saturday, cash assistance benefits will end for about 41,000 Michiganders - including an estimated 29,000 children - who have received it for four or more years.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>And I was just thinking to myself &quot;Scott, why don't they get jobs? Sure, high-paying jobs are certainly scarcer across the state, but there are still jobs out there if you want to work.&quot; But like magic, Gwen says this:</p>
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<p>&quot;It's easy to say get a job, but where are the jobs?&quot; said protester Gwen Gaines, a member of the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization.</p>
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<p>I know, I'm as surprised as you are - we have an organization called the &quot;Michigan Welfare Rights Organization&quot;. But they fight for the rights of people like Angela Nelson:</p>
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<p>[Angela] Nelson, 50, a mother of five, received cash welfare assistance &quot;on and off&quot; in her adulthood, amounting to about 10 years.</p>
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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.</p>
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<p>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.<br />
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But 10 years of welfare? Four children. Three grandchildren. In the same house with her? I&nbsp;think there are bigger problems&nbsp; in our society when four years (or ten, in some cases) of free money taken forcibly from other people is not enough.</p>