Do welfare people have goals in life?

Question

Seems like all they do is sponge and trash public housing provided by working americans.

Nettie I already help through taxes they take out of me every week.

Everytime I Have to clean out a HUD rental that is totally trashed I get irritated and want to hurt them, but then I think to myself "WWJD"

Lamoviemaven I bought the suit in 1999, and I worked many hours to pay for it.

Answer 1

Hmmm...the answer is not black and white. For a better answer, go to a poor neighborhood, and talk to some of the people there, and as them about their lives, and if they are happy, or if they have goals.

People who are on Welfare are subject to an incredible amount of humiliation and shame, and this can be a crippling thing; have you ever had to beg for a meal for your child because he was hungry? I am sure there are folks who work the sysytem, and enjoy living a life free from hard work and fiscal responsibility...and I am also sure that there are people who need a hand up for a while, until they can get back on their feet...should we just abandon these souls to ruination? What good are all our riches if one child starves in this country?

My mother left school at the age of 14, to take care of my grandfather and uncles, after her mother passed away; without a real education, she took odd jobs where she could; backbreaking toil like cleaning peoples houses and warehouse jobs where they paid by the day, until she could barely walk from the pain. So yes, we were on welfare for a few years...and we were poor, and life sucked! We didn't trash public housing or laugh ourselves silly collecting checks...we lived a hard life where meat was a luxury and my sisters and I worked as young teens to help make ends meet.

So before you ask this question, go down to the local salvation army, and spend a night with some people who didn't make the right choices, or didn't get a good break, or who are just plain stupid...does that mean they should'nt eat or have a place to sleep?

Answer 2

I hate questions like this ... yet I also like the opportunity to have my say.

The people who want to get by without really working are dealing drugs and other crimes, because contrary to what people think, there isn't a lot of money on welfare.

Try raising 4 kids on $729 a month, and $350 foodstamps, with a $600 housing cost. Some government housing is cheaper ... if you can get in to it. This is why often several families live together, and the premises suffer.

OF those that do spend their lives on welfare, as another person said, many are troubled, and so downtrodden by life from the time they were born, that they don't even know what it is to hope or dream for more.

Others end up on welfare (or SSI) because of illness, mental illness, disability, abusive relationships, and the like. Many of these are stuck in poverty, because they aren't able to work, and don't have other resources. And their kids grow up living in poverty, learning to despise the agencies, but often not able to overcome the effects of growing up in poverty.

And yes, there are those that are able-bodied, seemingly healthy, yet living off the system. some are freeloaders. Others are there temporarily, pick up and go on (more than many realize).

Please just understand that the welfare and poverty problem is extremely complex, and just because a person is in it, for a time or for life, does not mean they are worthless, lazy, etc.

Bottom line answer to question .... yes, some have goals, some are working towards those goals, many more need help to achieve their goals, and even more need to learn that it's okay to have goals and work towards them ... they have learned not to allow themselves to hope.

Answer 3

They have goals as we all do, the thing is :
it takes money to make money............

You can't even go to schood w/o money, you can't live in decent house, etc....

I relate to the public housing deal, fifty years ago, one was built in my city......today is no longer there. It was not necessarly welfare people, it was more racial. There are just some races that tend to destroy.

Young people have a hard time making it nowdays. They need to learn to get together w/peers and rent a home and learn to live together w/honor and respect for each other and others property. They do not realize what they tear down today they reap in higher taxes tomorrow.

I suggest teaching in school how to do this. How to be parents, friends, a renter, a voter, just citizens. Some just do not know how. Maybe the Churches could do this.
It could even be a class you must complete before you are given welfare.

Like you, if there were no Hell, I'd be in jail.........wWjd?

Answer 4

There are bad apples on welfare, of course. But the majority want to *not* be on welfare anymore; they dream of living a better life, and providing for their families without suffering the indignities of the welfare system.

Some facts:
--5 % of the U.S. population is on public assistance
--1% of the federal budget is devoted to welfare or public assistance for the poor. Yet Aid to Families with Dependent Children was the only government entitlement program politicians sought to reform.
--12 % of the federal budget is devoted to welfare for the middle class and wealthy in the form of tax credits, no interest mortgages, home investment incentives.
--34.9% of female headed households live in poverty.

Answer 5

There needs to be MAJOR welfare reform in this country. We breed GENERATIONS of welfare-dependent families and don't seem to see the problem in this. America makes it so easy for people to be lazy and still get a paycheck and their kids in college and their medication paid for. Not all welfare recipients are this way, but an alarming amount are and it's just another sad example of what is destroying this country.

Answer 6

Gosh, lionheart, your name implies that you are a question. Yet your question implies that you've conveniently managed to ignore all of Jesus' teachings regarding the poor, and instead do the exact opposite.

Maybe if you followed Jesus' admonishment that to be perfect, you should sell all of your belongings and give the money to the poor, you'd have a little more perspective on this issue. Of course, then you wouldn't have that nice suit you wear in your profile picture.

Incidentally, the 80's called. They want their suit back.

Answer 7

Their main goal is to keep collecting welfare. They also want to sit around watching Jerry Springer while eating Twinkies and talking about what they will do when they win the lottery. Sometimes you wonder when they find time to make more babies to help enhance their collecting ability.

Answer 8

Though I would agree that MANY are sapping the system, there are some who really need it. Then there are those who made bad decisions and are truly trying to get off of welfare.

I think the welfare system needs to be overhauled, but for those who are truly trying to better themselves, it should be there for them.

Answer 9

To have kids equally spaced apart for as long as the can? But don't get me wrong I don't think they are all like this but there's some good players out there.

Answer 10

Their goal in life is to get through it with have to work or take on responciablity.