Do You think people on welfare need to take care of themselfves?

Question

Do you think its ok for them to have children they cant afford and expect the government to support them paying for their food, medaical , daycare, heating and cooling bills, And will not work fulltime to help themselves?

They say they are so poor and need help, yet they drink, use drugs, and have the internet, If they are so poor why do they have time to be online but no time to work??

Dont you think its time the government says ENOUGH............ Im tired of paying taxes for these deadbeats personally. There is nothing wrong with getting help when your in a bad spot but that doesnt last for years !!!!

Why should My tax dollars help them if they wont try ? Why give them tax refunds for child tax credit, if they didnt work fulltime?

I did not say anything about those who were trying !!!!!!!!!!! Its the men and women that sit on their butts and want taken care of. If they cant support thier kids Stop having them until they can.

I said nothing wrong with short term help but if you have been on it for more then 2 years your not working to get yourself off it.

Too many feel Its their "right". And I have heard so many say, Oh I cant turn that in, They would lower my food Stamps. I see them in the store, They dont buy good food, Its mostly chips, junk food, pre-made,or soda's

The kids can eat breakfast and lunch at school. Take care of the childrens medical But not the adults unless they want to pay a monthly premium. Like 98.00 A month like our seniors and disabled ahve to pay to get Medicare. And they are on a fixed income and CANT work.

Dont give them food stamps, Give them boxes of food. Good healthy food.

The cash needs put on a card that lists every purchase. The same with any money from child support. Shouldnt get taxcredit refunds Give it back to the state that takes care of them

I work in both Indiana and Illinois since i live on the line. Indiana is some better then ILLINOIS but I know there is no time limit. Moms have kids and are on it the whole time they raise the kids. Most have 4-7 kids.

Im not a cold person, I give free time and raise funds for children with cancer. I work with the schools keeping good shoes on the feet of underprivilaged children...... If they dont work they are not trying to help themselves.

Most states have healthcare for the kids, and they feed them thru government programs at school, they can have breakfast and lunch, maybe looking into feeding a dinner meal to the children in need during an after school program.........I dont think the children should suffer, but the parents need to work unless they are ill.

Answer 1

I agree. The system is being abused now like never before in many states. I saw it first hand in Florida. It used to be extreemly difficult to get any aid and they put limits and made cuts and then it seemed like it was overnight and illegals were bursting the seams at the welfare office. Every law they put in place to stop the abuse just seemed to go out the window. I've never seen such mindless waste and abuse and it wasn't "needed" by most of them. If you can afford a 45,000 pick-up....you don't need food stamps. I honestly wish I could have filmed the grocery store my husband worked at on a Saturday morning. They didn't look at prices and just grabbed everything in sight. All paid for with the food card. Then they'd head to a series of churches and collect box after box of food from them and after that....they'd head to my store and WalMart and buy hundreds of dollars of goods with the cash they had and be drunk on the corner that evening.......they had a program where they gave them a card that was supposed to be used for school uniforms and school supplies and I can assure you not much went for anything for the kids because the school would have a program where you could get used uniforms for free and basic supplies just by showing your card.

Now I don't mind helping people who NEED it. But I don't like subsidising a lifestyle I couldn't afford and I was working. They were too......just under the table and through other illegal means. They had people letting them know the ins and outs and loopholes to basicly live for free.

They should have some responsibility limit on the amount of children. I mean some shoot them out 1 a year to keep the benefits comming and it's on my dime. I understand there's "mistakes" and I would never want forced sterilization or anything......but hey, if you can't afford them you shouldn't be having them. Tie a knot for goodness sake.

Answer 2

Nobody has addressed the question of the most expensive "welfare queen" - huge corporations.

I do not mind my tax money going to various groups of people who are down on their luck, or live in a place where jobs are hard to find and/or schools are poorly funded.

However, I do mind my portion of taxes being determined because some corporation gets at tax break for having a post office box in Bermuda, or employing people in Puerto Rico.

I would not even mind if I could have the same tax benefits as corporations. Then the playing field would be levelled. But it's much easier to blame persons who do not match our ideals.

In the last 30 years we have made being poor and jobless a crime in America. Much of this has been driven by corporations who do not wish to share their wealth with those that produce the wealth. I am not talking about wealth distribution, although there is far too much of that going on among various "entities." I am just talking about everyone having equal access to the tax standards.

Jefferson said, "If the banks and corporations become uppermost, the revolution will have been lost." Good old Jefferson, he really did understand how money works!

Answer 3

I don't think we need children carrying diseases to the public schools, and I'd feel uncomfortable letting children starve or watch my kids eat in the school cafeteria. I'm not happy with forcing poor women to get sterilized or aborting them when they get pregnant. Taking their kids away seems pretty heartless too, and even if you did that, they would have to be taken care of, I know you don't want them left out on a hill to die. Funny thing is, working full time may not pay enough to pay for daycare and the rent on a slum room too so you can actually work and need welfare. Most of the lifetime welfare recipients are the damaged, either mentally or physically and can't and won't ever be able to care for themselves, the majority of welfare recipients are off the rolls after a year or two, and use the system accordingly. The hard core abuser is in the minority, but its a minority that is so hated that its trumpeted about as if it were the only users of the system. There is not one welfare abuser I would trade lives with and I am not rich, so I don't see where they enjoy all this luxury on the very less than luxurious money they get.
The solutions are grim, starving their kids, forcibly sterilizing them, turning families out on the streets, so paying a bit for them may be annoying but I never hear about what else we can actually do, all I hear is the complaints.

Answer 4

I can attest that a lot of people on food stamps buy junk. I worked in a grocery store for three years as an after school job, and every month at the first of the month they came in there and bought chips and sodas, and ice cream and things like potted meat and Vienna sausage, hardly ever did they buy food that was good for them. And it every time you turned around they were having more children. If you can't afford they first one, then you obviously can't afford more. There should defiantly be some rule about the kind of food you can buy.

I was also a secretary at DFCS, and there are rules that if you get taniff and food stamps then you are supposed to come down to DFCS and actually work for them, (Filing paper work, answering the phone, etc.) The problem is nobody enforces these rules. they just let it go. Personally I am sick of people on welfare who have interest in bettering themselves and want to live off the government.

Answer 5

I don't know which state you live in but where I live in Wisconsin people who receive public assistance have pretty strict guidelines to follow.
Welfare isn't open-ended I think it's like 2 years that you can get help and the government requires you to get a job or they can provide you with training in certain fields if you need it to get a decent paying job. When it comes to food stamps there are guidelines for that as well. You can't just buy soda and crap because it isn't on the list.
I know of people that fell on hard times and the father had fallen off a roof while shingling it and the mother went to social services for assistance and they were told the had too many assests for financial aid. They owned their own home, 2 cars, & a boat. So they felt they could sell off their personal property or refinance their home until the father got back on his feet.
Yes I realize sometimes people are just being lazy but there are times when it really is necessary.
I do think however we have become a society of want versus need.
I also realize that each state runs welfare programs differently but the one here is working pretty well.

Answer 6

Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that the government is authorized to give the taxpayers money away to anyone. The only thing that welfare does is teach people to lean on the government for everything. America was founded because people wanted LESS government and more freedom. The pioneers and settlers didn't have anyone paying their way through life, and they surrvived and started our nation.

Answer 7

I believe the only answer here is to throw them off welfare & allow their kids to get 2 good meals at school If they are sick make them apply for Disability instead I confess I'm on Disability I'm not that happy about it but 3 different doctors made me apply I'm working on earning a little money anyway

Answer 8

If your real you are either very young and brain washed by your very nonthinking parents or a person who seeks simplistic answers. If your worried about where your tax dollars are going look at the sums that have been, are, and will continue to be sent to Iraq. What do you suppose the results might be if that money were spent on the education of the children of the people you are worried about getting assistance from the government. I think by the way you address the problem you might like the answer to be to just round them up and send them somewhere.

Answer 9

If they can, yes. If this is too vague, allow me to clarify:

Nobody gets on welfare because they think it would be fun to live on the bare necessities. I know little about it, but what I do know is that nobody goes on it for the hell of it. Remember the Great Depression? People would rather work hours for pennies than to go on government assistance, and to suggest that this generation is all about laziness and enjoying living on what the government chooses to give them is a stupid statement. I asked a question last year (4 months ago, I believe) about how I would change welfare. If you want to see the question, here's the link:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AtiQvUSuIu5I24tWtNndy27sy6IX?qid=20061128063407AAirxDK

Answer 10

My concern in all of this would be the kids. It's not their fault their parents are deadbeats (which isn't always the case - there really are people out there who are on welfare temporarily just because of bad luck). The kids shouldn't suffer just because the parents are useless. I think a solution would be (1) give them vouchers instead of cash. Then they can buy the things they need, but no drugs or alcohol. (2) make it contingent on trying to get a job, unless a disability prevents it.