What do think welfare and other help the poor programs have accomplished?

Answer 1

It has created a class of people who expects handouts and who refuse to work. You also have those who use welfare to somehow create a better life than those who work for a living. It is not necessary to have new hairstyles every week, salon nails, gold teeth, a drug habit, an alcohol habit, lotto tickets, cigarettes, expensive foods, or lots of jewelry. But that is what welfare helps purchase, at least indirectly. By getting more money to spend on the needs, certain people are left with more to spend on their wants.

Welfare tends to promote the notion that there must be a non-working class and that the working class must support it. It also promotes the ideas of entitlement and reparations.

Answer 2

There are many out there who have used the "welfare system" exactly as it was intended- to get on their feet, get their education, move on to become productive tax paying citizens.

The biggest "welfare program" there is is NOT "Cash Assistance Welfare"- it's Nursing Home care. There is also alot of fraud in those cases- not on the part of the applicant, but in many cases their well-to-do kids. The children of the elderly parent move resources, money, assets, etc- into their own accounts in order to make "grandma" appear destitute, so that "grandma" can get free nursing home care.

I know that there will ALWAYS be poor. There will always be those in society who 'seem' to not care about themselves. Maybe they don't. I don't get pissed, I actually pity them. I pity their children more. I figure if giving food stamps to a family with a mother head of household who works at 5.15 per hour ensures that her kids eat, then so be it.

The days of "sitting home and doing nothing for their whole life" is OVER. Clinton enacted welfare reform in 1996 (August 22nd, to be exact) which limits cash assistance to a family for 60 months over their LIFETIME.

Food Stamps and Medicaid have no time limits in households where there are minor children. Nothing wrong with making sure kids eat and have medical care. Maybe those things throughout childhood will keep them on the up and up so maybe THEY won't end up in the system.

Answer 3

I've seen that in cases with true need, the lives of children have been saved by welfare.

I've also seen programs for those below the poverty line, particularly the elderly, help them tremendously, people who have worked most of their lives, but get low Social Security income because their salaries were low. I'd like to see more of those programs.

However, I've seen many cases of abuse, women who are married, and have income from their husbands or 'live in' significant others, who don't report that status.

I've also seen cases of people receiving welfare who work part-time or full time and are paid in cash.

I believe there should be more investigation into people who are receiving these programs to determine whether there is actually a need for them or whether the programs are being abused, which is illegal.

Answer 4

They have put food in the mouths of some kids who otherwise may not have had food. They have put clothes on their backs.
They have have allowed some elderly people to eat something other than dog food and have some other place to end their lives other than poor houses. They have allowed some disabled people a wheelchair or medical aid where otherwise they'd have none.

Those same programs have caused some people whose desire for leisure outweigh their desire for income to take the easy way out. They've made otherwise unwanted pregnancies to be wanted for the extra income. In some cases they have institutionalized poverty.

From my point of view, the good outweighs the bad. If society was serious about the wellfare of the worst off, they'd be more generous in some cases, more guiding than enabling in others
(A hand up, not a hand out and all that crap). Only the truly selfish would like to see the law of the jungle return, with the poor totally reliant to hand-outs on the street. It'd be against their self-interest with the rise in crime and social unrest that it would cause.

Peace

Answer 5

Provides incentives for not moving up the pay bracket just that little bit, which prevents people from not moving up that little bit more - in essance it provides a barrier to entry into something better -
it has encouraged the ideology that government is in place to provide for society - which should not be the case
necessity is the mother of invention - the poor NEED necessity to move up in life - not a reason to subsiste as some will
It has forced people to give charitably instead of the volunteering to give
I could go on and on

Answer 6

yup dependence on the government and lots of lazy people..
not to mention lot's of kids for people on welfare to get more money from the goverment

Answer 7

THE PROGRAMS BENEFIT OUR SOCIETY. AND IF IT WERE NOT FOR THESE PROGRAMS, WE WOULD HAVE A GREAT SUICIDE, ROBBERIES, DEPRESION, ILLNESSES, WITH OUT HEALTH CARE MANY WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO RECEIVE MEDICAL ATTENTION. THANK GOD FOR THESE PROGAMS AND THEY PROVIDE JOBS.

Answer 8

One thing:

Dependence on government.
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