However, one also must look at the past for insights and guidance on things that were done wrong to ensure bad history is not repeated.<\/p>\n
Therefore, let me share with you a part of history that we need to be aware of and protect our future from ever repeating again.<\/p>\n
Many folks have never heard of Poor Farms in the South and Poor Houses in some parts of the Midwest. Before soc. Security and Welfare we had poor farms\/ houses. They date from the late 1800s until 1930s.<\/p>\n
Poor farms\/ houses were often filled with the elderly and others that had no money or anyone to take care them. People often worked the land for 16+ hours days, dressed in rags, and had very little to eat. Once you were there you could not leave ever until you died.<\/p>\n
My grandfather always taught us that if Social Security and Welfare were ever eliminated, that a model of Poor Farms\/ houses would return.<\/p>\n
Poorhouses promised to be a much more efficient and cheaper way to provide relief to paupers<\/i>.<\/p>\n