Take off welfare?

Question

I know people threaten if welfare was gone crime would increase but instead we can use that money to fuel our police. why should we pay for the Lazy I see it as you dont work you dont eat,,

Answer 1

I understand your point of view. However, not only would crime increase, you would have beggars everywhere, homeless people all over the place. You would also have to build and staff more prisons for the increase in crime. Have you any clue how much it takes to house a prisoner? Way more than the welfare! Let's not forget the starving children in the streets, who will not go to school at all. Now you've gained more illiterate people who have zero skills with which to gain employment. What will you do with them? Orphanages? More money out the window. Foster homes? There aren't enough of them now, and still more money spent.
What about the people who are on welfare temporarily? There are such people....who couldn't find work before their unemployment benefits and savings ran out. Are you going to throw them out in the street as well? I'm 65 years old. I've been on welfare 3 times in my life, for a total of about 2 years cumulative. I'm not lazy, I've worked all the rest of the time, mostly at minimum wage jobs, because I couldn't afford to hold out for better pay.....I had a child to support and no family to turn to. I could have held out if it had only been myself that I was responsible for, but I wasn't about to let my daughter go hungry and live in the streets. If it was up to you, I would never have made it to college eventually, where I carried a 3.5 average. My daughter, who, by the way, has been working every day of her life since she got out of high school, and I would have been thrown on the trash heap with all the other "lazy" people.

Answer 2

Welfare is structured incorrectly. Instead of handing people money we should establish communities where a person is given the basics needed and the kids are required to attend school. However, the basics do not include TV, cigarettes or alcohol, among other things. If they want those things they can look for work. If they are willing to look for work, all assistance possible should be provided to help them get on their feet. If a person is caught breaking the law while in the community they should be immediately ejected.

I don't advocate giving anybody a free ride but will not allow people to starve either.

Answer 3

i'm not on welfare, so don't think that bc of my response.
what you don't realize is that there are millions of tax dollars floating around unused that could be and should be used to give law enforcement a raise.
instead these tax dollars (some of them) are used for grants for businesses and building homes and what not. no telling what happens to the rest of it. maybe it goes to the big wig legislaters who like to vote for them to get raises when they don't need them every year. bc most of them DON'T do their job like they say they will.
(oh yeah to the above response democrats increase the benefits for welfare and the poor.)
also, some ppl have to quit work bc they can no longer afford childcare, and you have to apply for welfare to get childcare assistance in my state and you can still get welfare if you are working. just bc you are on welfare does NOT mean you don't work. it just means that your income isn't helping you get above poverty level. so before you start blaming the lazy ppl, check up on what's going on.
i also believe that firefighters and the military should get raises and teachers too. these ppl spend their lives trying to save ours and make them better.

Answer 4

i pretty much feel that way, and im a democratic leaning person, at least i dont like bush and his policies at all. I do think that there are some exceptions of course, that the people who are scamming the system should be taken off, and those on it for legitamite reasons should be weaned off. That money could very well be spent in better ways.

Answer 5

when welfare was started it was an emergency helping system....not meant to become a life style for generations of the same family to still be on it from the inception of the program until today..it was meant to be a semi short term fix for a problem for the unemployed...not to make a whole new class in this country....it needs so much fixing ..just the trying to fix it is going to cost tax payers billions of dollars...but it can't continue the way it is...it is like having the Hoover dam leaking and every one saying OH it is ok for now....lets fix this little hole and this little hole over here...and then walk away...and you know one day the whole entire things is going to come crashing down and
kill millions...same thing with welfare..time for a fix now...no need to increase is budget so they get more money...no need to RAISE TAXES higher and higher to support these over spending...time for cuts...our military make so little money them lose their homes when called up for duty..the military make so little money, some of them have to take second jobs and apply for welfare themselves....how about our first line fighters..our TEACHERS...they have to put up with way to much baloney today and they get paid pennies for all their education ( they have school loans ) and all their time and caring and help...teachers are the first line because they help mold our children into fine women and men that will grow up to keep our country going...OH welfare not teacher...we were talking about..take money from welfare and pay teacher much more so we can get better schools and better teachers..put welfare to work..like the old WPA programs back in the depression days....take food stamps away and give out the military rations like they used to do in the olden days..find ways for people to eat, but find ways to save our country from going under from over spending..

good luck to all

Answer 6

But don't you feel sorry for the kids who skipped class and did drugs. They didn't want to do that it was the oppressive teachers and the corrupt coporations that made them do that.
Welfare is an abused system. The wrong people are recieving welfare.

Answer 7

Well one additional thing you could do is arm the legal populace to prepare for the on slaught, I hope it will not be like dawn of the dead 2000.