Trident said:

I don't know why I am bothering to post this here since I don't seem to get anyone wanting to explain why any of these ideas won't work, but #5 is about welfare.

To get welfare you should have to work at some job to the best of your abilities. There are tons of things that could be done, but some of them would be like getting paid to fix up their own house or their landlord's house (by re-painting the outside or fixing the fence, etc. Then pay them to fix up and paint as many neighbor houses as wanted so that they could make the whole area look nicer. They could learn a trade, get skilled at it and not lose self respect or a working routine. Then every Friday they could get paid to deliver resumes. The resume would have a centralized phone number with an extension for them on it. They would get bonuses for each unique business that called them up for an interview and then a big bonus for getting hired and another one for staying at a job for more than 6 months. After that they could not go back on welfare until they had earned the same amount of money working at a job that they collected while on welfare (they'd keep the money, it would just be a guide to make sure people weren't just getting fired in order to get hired and get bonuses again) or until double the length of time they were on welfare had passed.

Tell me why this is a bad idea or how it could be made better.

It is wondered whether the landlord is apt to enjoy having his or her windows painted shut by a tenant whose likely chief preoccupation with the job at had is to have it finished with as soon as possible...finished with in such a way as to never demand an encore...