What is your opinion about welfare?

Answer 1

I think welfare can be helpful to individuals who seriously need it however I don't think people should remain on welfare for the rest of their lives unless they are elderly, mentally or physically disable. For individuals that depend on welfare because they have X amount of kids and X amount of education there should be a plan for these individuals. And if I had my way, the plan will be as follows;

If the individuals has G.E.D/H.S. Diploma able to work

*assist in finding job placement
*assist with daycare expenses
*assist with medical care and housing if needed.
*provide monthly counseling to ensure the individual's children are properly taken care of.
*offer programs to help individual obtain additional training or work towards a degree for enhancement of self and children.
What I mean by assist with daycare and housing etc. is the Agency pays a portion and the recepient pays the rest. This program will last for a certain length of time and once the agency feels the individual has gotten themselves together, all funds will cease.

If the individuals does not have education but has X amount of children, the individual;

*Must go back to school to obtain GED in order to recieve any kind of assisting from the government.

*Work a part-time job in order to gain work experience and become a responsible adult

* The agency will provide counseling and follow services to these individuals to ensure they are doing what they are suppose to do in order to receive funding from the government. The agency will be responsible of making sure the individual is doing what they suppose to do by checking with the school regularly to see if the receipient is enrolled as well as checking with the employer.

* Because the individual will be working part-time, and going to school full-time, the government will pay for majority of the expenses. A time frame will be placed on these students to finish school and assistance will be provided in finding full time employment.

Answer 2

I am almost totally against welfare. I know that some people DO need it, and that it does do SOME good, however, for every one person that I can think that it is truly helping, I can think of four or five that are just getting a free ride. And even worse, the people who are getting thier free ride actually have the audacity to act as if they are actually entitled to the free money, and deserve MORE than what they are already getting. Another aspect is that being totaly dependent on welfare or disabiliy is something that people learn. If there is a deadbeat mother sho is cheating the system for her free money, and she has two kids, chances are that one or both of those kids will grow up expecting handouts too.
I don't just blame the trash that wants their free handouts, I also blame the doctors and politicians who help them. I know a woman who found a doctor to give her a historectomy, not for any real reason, but so she could claim a 100% disability. I reported him to the welfare office and also to the surgical group that he was part of and he lost his license to practice medicine because he had arleady done this with two other women.
I believe that our trying to help our less fortunate people is a burden to our society. How can our society progress if we insist on keeping the less desirable members with us? If they can't support their families, then maybe there is a reason for it? Just like those "feed the children" things, we feed 500 children now, who live in an environment that CANNOT support them, when they mature, then we have 1500 more to feed. The problem will NEVER go away, but just keep getting bigger.

Answer 3

I believe the welfare system in America is a joke. I have had to use public assistance after I gave birth to my son at 18 and could not afford to take care of him while I was a freshman in college. I sat in the welfare office for food stamps from 8 until 3. While in the loud, crowded waiting room I witnessed several individuals schooling each other on how to beat the system. When I get to the back I get hassled- me, an honest, hard working individual apparently trying to better herself. I felt so ashamed by the time I left and hurt. I didn't understand how someone like me who needed the help and was actually trying to better myself would be hassled.
I think if the government put more regulations on the system it would be useful, but the system now is not fair. For example, if someone is trying to go to school and they have a child social assistance should automatically be granted, especially if the individual is a 3.0 or higher student. In addition, if someone has four kids and is genuinely trying to work but makes less than 20K a year they should be granted something.
The system needs tweeking and people need to be honest. In an ideal society welfare works.

Answer 4

I think that people on welfare should not be allowed to have children! Too many welfare recipients don't even try to get ahead. They just live off the system, generation after generation. It is a way of life for them.

Answer 5

Our county has a problem with generational welfare. People are on it forever and so are their children and grandchildren. It's become a way of life. If welfare ("public assistance") is managed correctly as a short-term way to get people who TRULY need it back on their feet, it's not so bad. But letting people make a career out of it is wrong. It costs the taxpayers. "We work so others don't have to!"

Answer 6

Sad to say , but it a needed social service.
Ronald Regan tried to help people get off welfare buy creating more jobs witch was a very good idea, but all it did was create a bigger "lower middle class". Now we have a few million people that cant make ends meet, and don't qualify for any kind of assistance.

Answer 7

It is crucial to the survival of families who have fallen on hard times. I'd never do away with it. On the other hand, it needs reform. Too many people are taking advantage of loopholes to fund greed and/or laziness. I'm glad my tax money is being utilized to help the less fortunate, but the dishonest ones ought to be caught and prosecuted.

Answer 8

The reason it was created was a good idea, but over the decades it has evolved into an infected boil that society just can't get rid of because it allows sorry people to remain sorry. There are many people who are on it because they genuinely need help, but when you have generations upon generations of families on it, them something went horribly wrong.

Answer 9

My opinion of home land security is everyone working at good paying jobs with benefits and retirement plans.At times unforeseen occurrences befall individuals and a safety net such as public assistance is a life saver.

Answer 10

People who ask for assistance, some really need it and others use it instead of working.

But, and a BIG BUT .... some people are not capable to care for themselves. No one ever taught them how to survive. What do we do, throw these people to the sharks, or do we help them?

That is the question you need to ask yourself.