Unconstitutional: working for welfare ?

No surprise here : " Recession may force closer look at welfare ".

       Apart from the idea of a RIGHT to welfare - with which no humanist will

    quarrel, this idea or practice of having to WORK for a welfare check is

    highly questionable from a constitutional point of view.

                 It clearly implies two separate  WORKING classes in a free and

    democratic country that outlawed  SLAVERY a long time ago.

               Anybody who  WORKS for a welfare check should simply be considered

    a state employee - with all the rights and benefits of any other state

    employee. The state has no right to punish an individual for being jobless.

                And what ever became of the NEW DEAL mentality ? So the State

    owes us nothing and corporate America owes us nothing ?

              Do we  perhaps owe ourselves a second American Revolution ?