Do you think we should abolish welfare?

Question

why or why not?

Answer 1

I think you should only be able to be on it for 6months. And if you have not tried to go to some type of school or got some form of means of supporting yourself than you should be kicked off.

Answer 2

I think there should be guidelines. I don't believe that people should live on welfare all of their lives. It does not do the person or society any good. If it is a young person who had a child, then a time frame of 4-5 years should be allowed. If it is a middle aged or older person who has worked all his/her life and they have a condition that prevents them from working, then they should receive assistance until they are well or can do some other type of work. Also, I think we should have universal health care here in the US.

Answer 3

Welfare is like Unions, Crop subsidies, various tax loops holes, and damn near all other government interferences, they either were a good idea at the but have long outlived their usefulness.
We now have 30 year old grandmother that are still popping out kids just to keep those checks coming, instead of trying to get a job and take some responsibility for their lives.

Answer 4

It should not be abolished but you should only be allowed to be on it for a certain abmount of time. Where I live they train you for jobs so you can go out and work and get out of the system. I was in the system once and I hated it. I learned not to get pregnant by a dead beat that was not only abusive, but valued his drugs more then his family. I got a job got out of the system and have never gone back. When I gave it up they told me if I ever needed help again I could have it mainly because I got off my butt on my own and found a job. The system makes it too easy for people to stay on welfare. They need to make it harder to get and harder to keep. I lived on the backs of tax payers and it wasn't fair for me to do that. It is also a matter of having pride in yourself.

Answer 5

I don't believe that welfare should be abolished. These programs where started with the needy in mind. There are thousands of people who really need these programs. I believe that what should be done is, if you can't prove that you are truly in need of the welfare services, then you should be kicked off.

Answer 6

no
but it should come with more mandatory strings attached
like retraining, money classes, ect.. to keep the money coming and then a time window when it will expire or phased down payments to the recipient to get them evetually to leave welfare and be self sufficient. finacial penalties for bearing children out of wedlock like reduced payments shouod also be intro duced. to help them find employment, tax incentives should be given to potential employers ( which are evtually graduated out ), the same for section 8, that bueracracy need to be streamline tremendously, or at the least a low interest fixed rate for buying low valued housing or government owned housing.
there is no free lunch on the government dime, we all pay for welfare ( called social entitlements, the biggest part of the Federal Budget... and no one is entitled to anything ).. so string attached should be mandatory and non negotiable.. our soft postion on social ills have produced the welfare mess.

Answer 7

I think we should keep it for when people really need it but be stricter about the time frame it is being used, if the person is trying hard to move on with thier life ( using protection, getting educated, looking for job, etc....) and keeping track of exactly what kinds of things the money is buying.

Answer 8

If you would see some of these people on welfare, yes I would remove a good portion of it. They basically buy filet mignon on the first of the month, and sit outside drinking malt liquor and eating grass for the rest of the month.

Answer 9

Funding for loan subsidies, pell grants, welfare, food stamps, corporate welfare, farmers welfare, medicare, medicaid, CHIPS, etc. should all be cut and religious organizations should be taxed

Answer 10

Yes. It will make (alot) of women stop having babies just to keep out of work and keep me from working my *** off to pay into the welfare tax.

Answer 11

yes i do. either that, or we should have a screening process, and not just trust their word. have them go to a clinic, and if they are disabled, and really disabled like in a wheelchair and not getting bad headaches, then they should get money. only then wil we save a lot of wasted money for the parents who cannot wait, or the crackheads who claim they have a problem, and need the money