<< Urinal, I've been posting on this board and sparring with Red since you were in diapers and crapping yourself. >>
That's funny... I didn't know Anandtech had been around for 24 years.
That's funny, I heard that you were doing that last week, something about you, a transvestite named Monique and a sado-masochists diaper fetish you had going on.
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<< Remember the article that states California is paying people to leave because they are afraid they will starve. >>
LOL that would be funny if true. The sarcasm is just too thick in this thread to know if someone is joking or not.
Millenium, I try to be careful about my sources and quotes. If I make a statement in a
serious thread the chances are very good that it will be backed up by documentation.
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nytimes.com/
June 18, 2001
A Fertile Farm Region Pays Its Jobless to Quit California
Over the last three years, Tulare County has paid more than 750 welfare recipients like Ms. Gedert an average of $1,600 a family to move almost anywhere in the country. For Tulare, one of the poorest counties in the country, giving welfare recipients a one-way ticket out is one solution to an unemployment rate that wavers between 15 and 20 percent
To officials here, the relocation assistance offers the best if not only way for the valley's unemployed, uneducated poor to progress, especially since the 1996 federal welfare bill put a five-year lifetime limit on welfare benefits.
The program was expanded to Kings County, west of Tulare, in October, and to Fresno County, the heart of what is known as the Central Valley's San Joaquin Valley farm belt, in March.
The rapid growth of the program says much about this large swath of California, long mired in poverty. While the Central Valley is the richest food-producing region in the world, it is also one of the poorest places in the country. Unemployment in the valley, with 5 million residents in 18 counties, averages about 10 percent, about three times the national average. In Tulare, the unemployment rate is 15 percent in the best of times.
And many of the small farm towns in Tulare, which has a population of 368,000, and other parts of the valley, where virtually all the work is seasonal, have much higher unemployment, up to 50 percent. Tulare's labor pool of about 150,000 people includes 10,500 families that receive welfare.
More than a third of Tulare's residents receive some kind of public assistance, census figures show, and the figures in other counties, particularly in the southern end, are not much less. Many officials here will point out that if the Central Valley were a state, it would have the nation's most depressed economy.
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We are giving hope to people who are facing close to starvation," said Frank Escobar, who manages Tulare's relocation program, known by its acronym, MOVE, or More Opportunities for Viable Employment. "We are really a relief valve to the large unemployment problem and the poverty of the Central Valley because families are moved and working full time, able to get off welfare, able to save enough money to start thinking about buying a house."
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