What do you think of the whole idea of welfare?

Question

IF I CAN FIND TIME TO TYPE THIS, YOU CAN READ IT.

In general. I don't want noboby spittin statistics. I don't wanna hear that.

Are you pro or anti?
Do you think the system needs a change or needs to be gone for good.


Personally I don't have anything against it. I think people have an extreme biase(soory if the spelling is off) against poor people. The reality is that we are a capitalist society. The way I see it(and I don't know if this is right), is that for very person with a six figure salary, there is just gonna have to be a person that is below the poverty line. If everyone all of a suden was successful and went to school, salaries would have to drop to adjust to this(maybe), and everyone would be poorer(maybe we need this so that people can learn to stop critiscising others). I think that the program is setting people up for failure, instead of trying to help the person get on their feet. An preventing them(and their children too) from falling into the same pit.

I also find it sad that people are often so quick to criticize the poor. Not poor person is someone who had ALL the opportinity in the world and decides to live off the gov't. Some people have hard lives. People make it seem as if you can succeed through anything. It's not that easy. Or even if you had experienced something bad in your life, that doesn't give you the right either. The whole "if I can do it, you can too" is bullshit. Obviously if they didn't make it through, there was something there that differentiates their situation from yours.

POINT BLANK: I don't believe in judging others. Unless you have the mind power to erase all the years of you life and replace them with someone else's. Feeling what it is like to grow up without a daddy, or poor, or in an abusive home, or in a home where no one is there for you to guide you, or in a family full of people who have done a NOTHING with ther lives and are trying to get you to. DON'T SPEAK.

So what do you think?

Answer 1

I am against welfare. I think it should be replaced with a system where everyone who can't find a job is given a job which they are capable of performing. There are plenty of useful things which can be done which aren't being done. Needless to say, the government, our taxes, are needed to pay these people for their work. If they don't do their work, then they shouldn't be paid. It would take a little ingenuity for someone to come up with these kind of jobs, but I believe they are there. I just thought of one the other day. One of the phone companies is charging $5 if you pay your bill even one day late! They said that all the phone companies do the same. That's highway robbery, unless the bill is extremely high in the first place. Other businesses are picking up on this type of usury where equivalent interest rates from such penalties can run up to 100% per annum. Well, the government could pay people to run a service which would send warnings before bills are due to people who subscribe to such a service. Another service which doesn't exist is one which keeps a track of telephone number changes and address changes, so people don't end up calling and disturbing a stranger - as I have done. Of course such a service would depend upon people keeping the service informed of address and telephone changes. There are plenty of services which don't exist at this time, which the government could start by paying people who cannot find a job. It just takes some imagination. In this way, employment could be available for all people, I believe. I feel that when people get paid for doing nothing it leads to problems - idle hands are the Devil's workshop, they used to say. While people are working in such jobs, they could still look for a better paying job. I do believe also that mothers with pre-first graders still at home, people who are taking care of a severe brain-injured loved one, etc. should be paid for the "work" they are doing. But "disabled" people should also be given jobs which they are capable of doing. Work gives people a purpose in life. You might still call a system which I am proposing "Welfare", but it certainly is different from what we have today.

Answer 2

Well in your case of taking it away so that everyones salaries could be lower, I agree with. But then again there will be a new system made to have certain people making more than others. Thats just the way the world goes round..

Anyway I agree with everything you stated you are abso right. No one has the right or place to make or pass judgement on anyone less fortunate. I always say no ones job is any better or worse than the next mans. Its just a different life for everyone and different job and different dice being throwed for some people.

The thing is, people get into habits. Welfare can turn habitual and it possibly may make people lazy. Just like unemployment. People keep on getting it and applying for it making them less and less capable of doing other things if they just make a way, otherwise.

Abuse is the worst kind of thing nowadays. It turns into greed.

This is an intelligent question.

Answer 3

I like the free money if it's coming my way and I do know how to work the system ( any system! ) but I've got my own money now a days and I don't really need the penny Government dough so I don't bother with the chump change. There are always bigger fish to fry that the bag of peanuts the Government is willing to shovel at the needy and criminal enterprises pay off a lot better, a lot quicker, plus there's no explaining to do for some bleeding heart social worker who's so jaded by what they've seen they don't give a rats potato about anything but their pension anymore. Those willing to live like that, hey I say give it to them. God knows it keeps them out of the crews they would be in if they had nothing at all and that protects society from the starving masses. It's worth considering that every revolution only commenced once the People were starving.

Answer 4

I have a job, a college degree, a little bit of money and no
"oops babies" (as yet). Thus far, I have been pretty dang fortunate in my life.

That being said, I think that I would really would have appreciated some help from the welfare system if I had somehow found myself in a bad place in life.

Does it need to be reformed? Like a lot of gov. systems, of course.

But it does do at least SOME deserving people a lot of good. That's all I know.

Answer 5

I agree, there needs to be more done than just encouraging poor people to be lazy. I work for the homeless and there are reasons why they are homeless that a $203 welfare check each month cannot address. Most seem to be content with waiting for the $203 while living in horrible conditions.

Answer 6

I think we need the welfare system. We just need to find a way to stop people from cheating. I feel sorry for the people who really need it, but get looked down on like they are one of the cheats.
I like the welfare to work program, because if you are capable of doing some sort of work, you should, just for some self-esteem.
If we did not have welfare it would be very tragic.
Cheaters need severe punishment.

Answer 7

I think it's necessary, but those who abuse it...take from those who need it. I also think this could be curbed by demanding those on Welfare take a drug test every 6 months. Yes, it would cost some money, but it would save more in the long run by kicking people off the program who spend their money on drugs.

What about the kids of those parents? We definitely need to re-vamp foster care. The cost? Yup...there would be cost involved, but...how much would be saved if those kids DIDN'T grow up to be drug abusers themselves, or gang members whom we'd be supporting in prison later?

I taught pre-k for 4 years in a school which charged according to income. I saw perfectly able bodied parents with brand new cars, new clothes on themselves and their kids EVERY DAY...who collected Welfare checks, and got free child care...all because they dealt drugs on the side. Not one or two people...but MANY! How is that fair to someone who really needs the help? Do you know that %16 of our tax money goes to Welfare and food stamps? This doesn't seem like bull to you?

Answer 8

THANK YOU!!! I am disabled & have been trying to get a good job for a yr & a half trying to get someone to hire me....NOBODY wants to, in the meantime I get money to buy food & such from the Gov.
I am NOT giving up on a job but I don't want to starve in the meantime!!!

Answer 9

It's a paycheck for people who don't work, does that make sense to you? It doesn't even sound right!

Answer 10

Poor Baby. You wants an opinoin or approvals?