The Welfare Game

[Alpha Mare]

The object for the players is to accumulate as much money as possible in 12 circuits around the board, each lap representing a month. Players start with a $1000 grant at the welfare office on the "Able-bodied Welfare Recipient's Promenade."


The able-bodied welfare recipient then collects money by having out-of-wedlock children, playing the lottery and the horses, drawing "Welfare Benefit" cards, stealing hubcaps, and making profitable side trips into the four "Saturday Night" crimes: drug dealing, gambling, prostitution and armed robbery.


Players unfortunate enough to land on one of the "Get a Job" blocks have to move out of the Welfare Promenade and into the "Working Person's Rut." There, they usually experience an unending series of bills, meager paychecks, discrimination, and welfare taxes. Instead of drawing "Welfare Benefit" cards, they draw from a stack of "Working Person's Burdens."

"We didn't invent this game; government liberals did. We just put it in a box."

In the fall of 1980, Ron and I, along with most Americans, had never heard of The American Public Welfare Association (APWA), the nerve center of America's welfare empire. (In 1987, APWA changed its name to The American Public Human Services Association.

 The majority of its budget comes from taxes in the form of dues that the state and local welfare agencies pay annually. The APWA bureaucrats who run the welfare empire are not elected by the public; they are not even appointed by elected officials. They elect themselves.

Implicit in the efforts to ban the game is the totalitarian notion that the American people are too stupid to know which games are worthy of their own independent purchase. The welfare game had to be forced off the market for the good of the taxpayer! You can read the full story of the banning of the game and our unsuccessful efforts to fight the government in court here.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/banning_a_game.html

http://www.welfaregame.com/

[thundley4]

I remember several years ago a very similar game, called Ghettopoly.  Of course, the usual suspects decried it as racist.

[AllosaursRus]

I remember several years ago a very similar game, called Ghettopoly.  Of course, the usual suspects decried it as racist.

There's quite a few "Let's Make a Dope Deal" games on the market, too! No word if anyone is trying to remove them. Wonderful country we live in nowadays, ain't it?