Why can't the people on welfare work?

Question

Why is it that there are all these teenage girls that go out and mess around, get pregnant, then sit on welfare? I get so tired of this. My fiance works his @$$ off so we can manage. It sickens me that the more he works, the more they take out to support someone else's kids. He works overtime so we can get ahead, not so they can take more out to support some girls kids. Why is it our fault that these women couldnt keep their legs closed?We have 2 kids of our own to support. I could go out and get a job but it would be pointless. I'd pay more for daycare than I would make because we have 2 babies in diapers. Why can't they just let people choose to pay taxes on welfare. I'd have no problem with getting taxed for welfare if it just went to elderly people.Some of these people getting state assistance have never even worked a day in their pathetic lives. Welfare really needs some reforming, don't you think?

Easy thing to do if you can't support kids. DON'T HAVE SEX!!!!!

Since a few people want to know why i'm not working, I'll explain. I could get a job making 8 bucks an hour but my fiance couldn't work overtime. He can work overtime and make 19.50 an hour. Which seems better?

I know about the work reform. You have to fill out applications and take jobs during a certian period. I know numerous people that have been on welfare for year. They'll work for a week and then quit, get another job, work for a week, quit. It's disgusting. And I do agree that it should be available IF you need it. Why should anyone need it for more than 5 months though? I was working for a while because my mother in law was watching the kids. I went through a temp service and it took 2 WEEKS to get a job. I never worked before in my life and It only took that long...I know in some places it takes longer. Get this though, factory jobs enable someone to make 10-11 bucks an hour, they get insurance etc. Why again won't people take these jobs?

There is a big difference between being on welfare for a short time and STAYING on it. I'm in ohio and here oyu can get cash assistance as well as all the other benifits. I'm all for someone being on welfare for a short time because I know that some things happen. I'ts the people that stay on it as well as the people that are on it when they have 1 child then go out and get pregnant with a second child. Come on, if you already have 1 baby you can't support, why even take a chance to have a second?

If my fiance left me tomorrow, I would go out tomorrow and get a job. The other thing, he's a great dad and would pay his child support. The other thing, both my kids were concieved on birth control, thats why I made sure to get an IUD so that there would be a slim to none chance I'd get pregnant any time soon.

not neccisarily raych. With the pell grant, i got 1,100 for a year in college. The maximum amount of the pell is 4,000. I had to drop out but i'm going back next year when I can afford it. I was told I'd get the full amount, but I couldn't. I only got the 1100 because I was considered dependent. I couldn't be considered independent because i'm under 24, I'm not married, I have children but I don't support them financially, and I'm not an orphan of the state.

Answer 1

I'm a teen mom and have been on Welfare one time. I had been out of work for almost a month when I finally had to apply because my money was running out and I wasn't able to get a job. I spent over 60 hours each week filling out applications and submitting my resume. Before I applied and continued after I got on it. I was on it for 3 weeks and made sure the day after I got my employment information that I submitted it to the state to have it stopped. Welfare doesn't automatically mean you're lazy and neither does being a teen mom. If you can only get a job making $8 an hour you must not have a degree. I work 40 hour weeks and go to college. I pay daycare and and can usually only afford the basics for myself but I make sure to give every extra bit I have toward getting my daughter the things she needs and often the things she just wants. I do agree though that there are far too many lazy people on welfare and having children they can't afford. But please don't lump teen mothers and people on welfare in the same low life group you see in some people.

Answer 2

As a person that was on welfare I know first hand how it works. I had a full time job, I got pregnant , as soon as my boss found out I was pregnant I got fired all of a sudden i seen everything crashing down on me. I was six months pregnant nobody else would even consider hiring me. My last resort was going on welfare. I was so humiliated to be there. I thought just the same way you did. But either I cared what people thought about me. Or get the money I needed to survive. But as soon as I was given the opportunity to get a job which was 3 months after I had my baby. I took it and I've been working ever since. I asked for all the services to be discontinued. Don't worry people could only stay on welfare for 5 years after that there on there on. Don't just think about the people who abuse the system, Think a bout those children who are hungry who do not have parents that would rather work for a living. I hope that you understand that not all the people on welfare are lazy sluts.

Answer 3

Yes welfare does need some re-vamping, but I'd be less worried about the fifteen dollars going into the welfare system and more worried about the fact you are having your man work overtime to support the four of you. He only makes 19.50 an hour working OT, then what is that time and a half? Jobs aren't guaranteed, vehicles break down, people get sick- I agree with the person suggesting to that you get a degree- being that you aren't married and have two dependent children- your education will be paid for- oh, but is that considered welfare for you? Best of luck!

Answer 4

I couldn't agree with you more.!!! I've been there done that with 2 kids in daycare. I was making $220 a week and paying $200 a week for daycare. It gave us $20 more a week to buy food or pay part of a bill. It just didn't seem worth it except for the fact it kept us out of the welfare system. I hate sponges! I was a single mom & worked hard to stay off welfare. My babys father was a deadbeat dad. The only time I got child support was when they threatened to throw him in jail. That was about once a year and he'd go get a loan to pay his $100 a month back support. So yes I do know how it is! Don't make excuses for them because they are just plain lazy!!!!

Answer 5

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Answer 6

actually in most states you can only be on welfare for 3 months then you must get a job or lose your benefits.

welfare is not the same as social security that old people get or social security disability that disabled people get all three are completely different programs (you don't pay takes on welfare you pay social security tax)

there is a limit on how many children you can get benefits for (usually the cut off is 4 kids) so you cant just keep having babys and getting more money

you could actually get a job and let your boyfriend watch the kids while you work (and you watch them while he does so you don't need a sitter) there is no reason he would need to give up his overtime you would just get a different shift than the 2 he is currently working.

I am in agreement with ally'smom your living off your boyfriend and bitching about people living off the state but its the same thing. except people on welfare HAVE TO work to keep getting help (and no they cant just work a week then quit or they lose benefits) you just sit around and get to apply for pell grants to go back to school at 24 years old and playing with your kids

Answer 7

i have a very good friend who was on welfare for a short time her husband worked as a supervisor at a really good factory well the factory shut down and they the factory was not able to relocate them. they have 2 small children, and she was not working at the time. In our community the unemployment rate is rather high,and it was difficult for both of them to find jobs - anyways they recived unemployment but that wasnt enough, so they got some help with insurance and food from welfare ,once they both found mediocre jobs they drasticaly reduced their help- what im saying is these people that stay on welfare for long ammounts of time do it because if you dont have a job the system will help you out so much more. if you have a job they think you dont need help, it should be switched around so there is more help aval. to people who work. --- but to your comment about these young girls out having random sex with whoever having 2 or 3 kids all by different people disgusts me. the thing i really dont understand is why does the government age limit things like smoking, drinking, driving, having a job, or voting. There are huge deals of paper work and evaluations you have to go through if you are trying to adopt a child or even place one for adoption, but any Tom Dick or Sally can go out and procreate, and then not take care of the child properly without any concequences and dont even say CPS can do something because most of the time their case load is to high because a nosey neighbor decided you shouldnt have spanked your child when they decided to go in the street or throw the family cat from the third story of your house. the government sucks and we have to live with it. sorry if anything is mis spelled spell checker wasnt working and im venting about this

Answer 8

Some people truly can't work some can. Welfare is supposed to just keep you above water till you can find a job and so on. This is an ideal of course and it doesn't always work that way....

They did reform welfare btw back in 1996. They are supposed to get jobs and training and be limited to how long they can stay on it etc. I think it is a good thing to help people that need it but I agree that the system could be monitored more closely.

Answer 9

well, I'll tell you my situation..... I needed cash assistance for a few months. I received a total of 900.00. and now because of that, the welfare dept. TOOK a total of 5,000.00 from me in child support that the father had sent in. DO YOU THINK THAT'S FARE !!!!! I don't !!! that amount that he paid was twice the amount that he is ordered to pay for a year. he is in arearrage but only about 7,000.00 now that he paid the 5,000.00 but I don't get to see any of it just because I got assistance of 900.00. so to tell you what really goes on.... its the father that actually pays for the welfare that the mother gets.

oh, also they do make you go to work its in the program. when I needed cash assistance, I had to be working at least 25-30 hrs. a week at 6.00 an hr. or more and the more I worked the less I got as cash assistance. ITS THE WAY THE PROGRAM WORKS.

and I also agree with ^^^ Nikki^^^..... what if your man left you... what would you do at 19-20 yrs old with 2 kids?????
what you should be doing is going to collage to get a degree for a great career instead of complaining about welfare people.

Answer 10

The father of my children died in Iraq while I was pregnant and I wasn't married, so I never got any compensation for it.
Like I said, I'm on welfare and I can't work because

1. I live in a small town with no job opportunities, and I have no car to drive to the nearest town to work.

2. My doctor told me that I should not work because I would go into premature labor if I did, and

3. No body will hire a pregnant lady. Trust me, I tried.

So just to let you know, I did graduate high school, and I have had several jobs, but while I'm pregnant, and can't work, I am on welfare. I didn't' know what I would do without it. I don't plan on being on it forever...there is a limit you know. And just because I'm on welfare, doesn't mean I'm pathetic, or that my children don't deserve food and shelter. It has nothing to do with keeping your legs shut, it's not like I planned this or anything. So keep your rude comments to yourself and don't judge people like that. The only one that's pathetic here is you.

Answer 11

The reasons for people not getting married but having kids are complicated, just like the way tax dollars are divided up and spent. There's no quick cure for this sick problem. Reducing out-of-wedlock childbearing alone will not restore marriage rates or reduce divorce rates to the healthier levels of the 1950s. At the same time, the evidence is clear that out-of-wedlock childbearing—among both single persons and cohabiting couples—is the main reason for the lack of family values in children's lives and therefore deserves the nation's URGENT attention. New funding from our tax dollars for marriage and responsible fatherhood programs offers many the potential to learn more about how to strengthen marriage for parents who already have children but there needs to be much more. Federal, state, and community officials are taking the opportunity presented by this funding to intervene earlier by educating teens about healthy relationships and marriage BEFORE they go and end up having children. It is also important to make postponing early, unwed childbearing a goal—especially among teens, Otherwise, these efforts to "fix" relationships may be too little and too late. So you've gotta know that tax money isn't just going to a bunch of fat, lazy bastards and their unwanted brats. It's also being used to fight the $%# problems that cause the situation!