Reply #27: If you are suggesting that people be required to 'volunteer'

[Bluenorthwest]

full time, I'd say that IS a job, if that is what they must do to get paid. You seem to be saying that the government should give people jobs working for charities. I might go for that, but if you want to call it 'welfare' and then require full time work to get it, you are simply benefiting those who will get cheap workers, harming current workers, and leaving the benefit recipient in the exact same role, only with a job. So they'd have a job, but still be on welfare. A full time job, being called 'volunteering' is what you seem to be talking about.
As it is there is very little 'welfare' available, for a limited amount of years in a lifetime, and there are already work/training requirements in all the states I know.