should America cut welfare (money not food stamps) and redirect those funds to give better VA funds?

Question

many call this a free ride, so why not cut it off and put those funds to use helping injured troops? thoughts opinions anyone?

Answer 1

yes but instead of cutting off all money just cut off those here illegaly and those with a history or suspicion of welfare fraud.

Answer 2

For 90% of those on welfare it is not a "free ride." they need those funds to survive. Why take that money away from them when the pentagon spends $400 for an ice cube tray (last month's Reader's Digest). We waste billions on the defense budget and then want to take away the little bit of help that we provide. Welfare is a tiny part of the budget yet it is always attacked because a few take advantage of the system. If we used that as a criteria then we would be throwing out everyone in Congress. And what about corporate welfare? We give tax breaks to oil companies that are making billions in profits. We could take that money and provide both welfare and help the vets!

Answer 3

Perhaps if they focused on reforming welfare to where only the people who truely need it recieve it, then there wouldn't be a need to cut it off. The truth is that the people who need the money for the things the food stamps don't cover, can't recieve it because they overqualify. Working families out there who are making well less than their monthly bills add up to, are not elligable for assistance due to the fact they have a job. It doesn't matter if that job only pays $3.15 per hour. I know for a fact this is the case in VA, USA. A single mother working as a waitress to support her son was rejected for assistance for daycare solely because she made $3.15 per hour. That same day she was rejected, an immigrant who had her daughter translate english for her, was handed an emergency check over the counter because she didn't have a job to support her family. If that doesn't turn your stomach, then there is something wrong there. Thank you and may GOD come soon to right the wrongs that have been done on this earth.

Answer 4

Eating out in the rain would be more healthy.
Not having any electricity would save on energy.
Welfare kids would go to school even if it was to get warm and dry or to use the rest rooms.
More women would sell themselves and save John some money.
More boys would sell themselves and save John some money.
The military would have an overabundance of criminals and slow learners to pick from for their volunteer military.
We would not need mexicans who would then just as soon starve in Mexico as here, to do all the dirty jobs.
We would not need to argue over minimum wage as any wage the old welfare bums would get would remain minimum.
Then we can increase our military spending, have larger military with larger military hospitals to fix up the wounded millitary with silver or gold engraved prosthetic devices and give out more medals.
Just think no more slum lords either. Just one big slum where unwed mothers would have to pay for their kids while competing on street corners with other unwed and half dead .
Now that would be free enterprise.
Now lets talk about the welfare money given to predomiantely white kids so they can go to school? That is welfare in almost all cases. So just cut that out also. Giving people tax money because they do not make enough if they are unmarried head of housholds is a form of welfare. Giving someone injured permanently and not able to work anymore is a form of welfare.
Yes and give all the welfare up for the military who protects us from people who hate freedom.
Welfare for just those that deserve it is what most people want. and they say they deserve it more than others.
I am afraid that the social welfare of this nation may have abusers but lets look at whom is abusing and get rid of them.
Why should a GI fighting in a war not in defense of nation but just because he wants to be a warrior receive more in help than a person working in and at a job who is injured and whose taxes were paying for support of whole country gets less or else nothing for his injurys.
Lets get some balance back into nation instead of pointing fingers at someone else's board in eye.

Answer 5

I actually think bringing the troops home instead of wasting funds fighting it is the better option. Instead of those billions going to fight a war we had no business fighting to begin with is the saner option. In this way, we would have enough revenue support the VA, General assistance, education, new roads, etc. We should concentrate on our own back yard instead of going overseas to find windmills to conquer.

Answer 6

That would be more in line with the intended function of the Federal government as outlined by the US Constitution.

Answer 7

No.

I'm not a big fan of these cute cut one thing to pay for another arguments.


How about we just cut welfare if that's what you want to do?