Welfare question?

Question

Do you think more people would suddenly become "upwardly mobile" if we stopped giving the poor handouts?

Instead of giving them money every month, what if we put them and their family into free welfare housing, gave them donated clothing, and delivered a case of MREs for food every week. I think a lot of these "I can't get a job" crybabies might look a little harder before they resign themselves to living on our tax dollars.

Answer 1

if you think living on well-fare is a good life? thingk again... we're privileged, they're not. If you're selfish enough to not even help your own country men out a bit you have some re-thinking to do. We're talking about people that are one step away from living on the streets with no way of getting dinner on the table. (if they have a table)

Answer 2

I agree... a few years ago when I worked as a cashier while in college when food stamps came out people would buy JUNK or steak and lobster with them...also I had a few experiences where our fine welfare recipients sold their food stamps to someone right in front of me didn't even try to hide it. Then you have the people who complain when something isn't food stampable and they complain about having to spend their "money" on it... well you know what? You can thank me and every other tax payer for your food and "money" (since they probably were also receiving welfare check too). 99.9% of these welfare recipients are able bodied and can work but won't... it makes me so mad! Some of these people go generations on welfare. It should be allowed only for a certain length of time just like unemployment benefits. I'm sick of working and paying my taxes so people who are lazy can stay home and get "freebies". Now, I am not against helping people who TRULY need help, but the majority of these people can get a job and work but won't... at least that is the case in my area.

Answer 3

I believe that social welfare can in fact hinder the upward mobility of the poor. I think economic development is a better option. Entice more businesses to come to the area and more job opportunities exist. It works. Alabama is a good example. When the federal government reliquished fiscal repsonsibility for social welfare to the states, Alabama did not do much to fund it. The state did bring more jobs into the area. Now the state has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country at 3 1/2 %.

Answer 4

I myself don't like giving my hard earned cash so somebody could sit on their duffs all day. There should be welfare for some people, but if you can work, get out there and get a job. You can't tell me there is no work, because the unemployment rate in MN is at 3.5%. I would just as assume to subsidize a single parent daycare so he or she can get a job, or go to tech school, NOT an University, going to a tech school would guarantee that they don't take a Liberal Arts degree.

Welfare was NEVER designed to subsidize someones whole life, it was only to help for a short time. What kills me about welfare is people thinks that it is a right. Guess what, it is NOT!!!.

Welfare keeps the poor, poor. Society just has to pay for it.

Answer 5

I got into a situation where I had to go on welfare for a while. I told them flat out when I got there, I didn't want to be there, I wanted to get a job. While I collected welfare, they put me in a class that focused on how to get a job, what fields you were qualified for, how to survive an interview, what to watch out for on job applications and so on. It culminated in a cold calling session where you sat at a phone with the yellow pages and started calling companies looking for a job. When one employer told me he was too busy to talk, I answered "that's why you need to hire me". I worked for him for several months until a better position opened up. Been at the new company for 20 years now. When done correctly, welfare can work. I know.

Answer 6

Possibly... but I do believe that the "welfare" as implemented by the government has done more harm than good. It would probably be better to let the private sector handle those types of problems (charities, faith biased groups). There was a time when there were charitie hospitals and clinics that took care of those without the means to get health care on their own.

Answer 7

Yes, yes, yes! So many people won't think about how big this problem really is. If people can sit around and get checks for doing nothing, that's what they are going to do (which, coincidentally, is the exact reason Communism doesn't work).

If the government would at least set a limit on welfare (say, 6 months for a family to get back on its feet), then people wil be forced to take care of themselves.

Answer 8

I get Food stamps and daycare help as well as rental assistance, MY deadbeat ex promises to send stuff for our children yet he never does, He moved out of state. I work 40 hours a week and even with the help I get I cannot afford cloths for me or my children after I pay my rent , daycare and my phone and electric insurance and gasoline I have 5 dollars a month to live on.
Before anybody complains about me having internet I pay it yearly with my tax refund. as for my computer it is a computer that my father refurbished for me.

Answer 9

maybe you should try living on those tax dollar welfare programs before you talk! it is obvious you don't have a clue about them.

and if you mean becoming criminals, dealing drugs, residential and commercial burglary, robbing and car jacking as becoming "upwardly mobile", then yes if we cut welfare many of the recipients will all of a sudden, become "upwardly mobile".


but let us guess, you are one of those who hates giving "welfare" to your fellow Americans, but are just fine with foreign government "welfare" right??

Answer 10

Think of this. Our tax dollar have been use to make a lot of thing. drug for the sick, to fix street, and to sent our USA Army to get a instant death in the war for the black gold. Welfare money should be use to help people that truly need it. To help and teaching them how to be worker. Then they will be in the same game that we are- pay taxes for something that our government will use to pay for another war.........

Answer 11

I say if they want our tax dollars maybe they should work for it. Judges can find tons of community service project for kids that get in trouble. Let's let people who can't find jobs and get welfare do the same. We have highways that need to be cleaned, things like habitat for humanity, etc.