Reply #39: Gee, he sounds a little confused about his own proposal...

[Moosepoop]

First he touts this workhouse-for-welfare program as a way to pay for reducing the state budget and enacting a tax cut, then after expounding on the idea of the workhouses he says he doesn't know how the state would pay for it.

Throughout his campaign, Paladino has criticized New York's rich menu of social service benefits, which he says encourages illegal immigrants and needy people to live in the state. He has promised a 20 percent reduction in the state budget and a 10 percent income tax cut if elected.

Asked at the meeting how he would achieve those savings, Paladino laid out several plans that included converting underused state prisons into centers that would house welfare recipients.

Paladino said he based his ideas on the Civilian Conservation Corps, a federal program that paid young unemployed men during the Great Depression to plant trees, build roads and develop parks.

Paladino said he would open the program both to long-term welfare recipients and to people who had lost their jobs during the recession. He said that he didn't know how he would pay for it but that prisons could be consolidated to make room.

I guess it doesn't matter to him whether this "program" saves the state money or costs the state money, so long as those dirty, dumb poor people get locked up and put to work either way.