Is the welfare system a failed program or a victim of lax enforcement of immigration codes?

Question

According to the 2000 census, 17% of the households in the U.S. receive public aid. However, only 4% of the households where the head of household is a U.S. citizen receive pubic aid.
One would expect the unemployment rate and public assistence rate to be similar, about 4%. Yet we are giving public aid to 13% of the households in the U.S. who are not U.S. citizens.

Answer 1

Contrast that with Corporate welfare and you will be even more pissed off.

Three dollars a gallon for gas. Soaring home heating costs. Record oil company profits. Billions in taxpayer dollars raked in by those same oil companies in subsidies and tax breaks promoted by the Bush administration and passed by the Republicans in Congress who rake in Big Oil campaign contributions.
And African Americans get gassed. Largely urban, we pay the highest part of our incomes in home heating and cooling bills, living in old buildings often with miserable insulation. But we are locked out of much of the industry as it consolidates.

Americans ought to be up in arms about oil and gas prices. We're the world's largest users of energy per capita, but we're now importing over two-thirds of our oil. We should be pushing ahead with a concerted drive for energy independence, like that called for by the Apollo Alliance: investing in alternative energy sources and rebuilding cities to make them energy efficient. This would create jobs in the cities, revive our auto industry, make us a leader in the green industries that will grow across the world, and help reverse the global warming that is now a clear and present danger.

But this administration has refused to summon us to that mission. Instead, its last energy legislation actually gave oil companies over $2.5 billion in subsidies even as they raked in record profits. ExxonMobil rang up the largest profit ever recorded by a corporation.

But that's only the beginning. For African Americans, the story gets worse because the oil companies are consolidating, tightening their control over the markets and locking African Americans out in the process.

Consider British Petroleum. BP made $5.3 billion in profits in the first three months of the year. African Americans are major consumers in the U.S. market that BP controls. But they aren't in on the rewards. BP has 800 gas distributors who now own more than 10,000 gas stations around the United States. None are African American.

Of 1,200 senior managers in the United States, BP has zero African Americans. Of 33 vice presidents, zero African Americans. BP does some $16 billion in procurement each year -- less than one-third of 1 percent of which goes to African-American businesses.

Answer 2

Its the result of a failing society unable to provide the population with rewarding stimulation and income to mange life successfully . We are able to produce so much with little effort today .we travel from a to b in 30 minutes and cover 20 miles .Horses would need care but a car needs only gas and an hour a month to maintain . Field hands are replaced by harvesters and machines produce thousands of tractors once built
We have to much free time with little value coming out of it so we have placed our own price on it . 5 dollar beers at football games 10 dollar parking 60 dollar tickets 80 thousand dollar boats and the people that enjoy these things often shuffle paper for a living .
Collecting commission off brokerage fee's ,investment accounts ,insurance , when two hundred years ago the community raised a barn helped build homes and worked hard .Sun up to sun down with little time to waste drinking ,drugging, and skeaming on how to make more money .We have sold our selfs down the river with the latest gadget video game and waste hundreds of hours watching t.v. Life is good or so they tell me .
Welfare would not exist if we did not have an over abundance of goods .

Answer 3

the difficulty of unlawful immigration is greater obvious in this economic gadget with rampant unemployment and the starting to be form of states being over-perplexed via illegals utilising social centers. it somewhat is a grass roots flow which has been gathering steam, yet for as long as i can remember, many individuals have been offended approximately unlawful immigration and the damaging governmental reaction to it.

Answer 4

many americans don't qualify for public aid because they are the WRONG color! i've seen some who drive cadillacs and get public aid, while others in desperate need have to walk just to be turned down.

Answer 5

both. need to turn over enforcement of welfare rules/regulations and laws to local government.

Answer 6

Overall its a lack of securing our borders.

Answer 7

It is failed. When you give someone something for nothing, they abuse it and do not respect it.

Answer 8

Entitlements for the able are never the answer.