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I'm just curious what you think.
Ok, well I get foodstamps, and a medical card for my daughter, my husband works his butt off, and I homeschool our daughter. I don't consider myself to be dirt poor or anything but we could use the help.
I notice every time I have to go to the DHHR office there are dirty people there who do drugs, have like 20 kids, don't work and who are able just not willing. It makes me so mad, I don't think they deserve it! If you don't use the benefit to help better yourself, and just use them long enough to get back on your feet then you shouldn't have them! I think in order to get any benefits you should be tested for drugs, and be in school or have a job (if able to). What do you think the guidelines should be?

2007-05-10 13:40:43 · 17 answers · asked by .:Tina ♥ marie:. 6 in Politics & Government Politics

golden- if you are referring to the ppl with all kinds of kid...well, work , of course they should be taken care of by foodstamps, and a medical card, BUT that don't mean the parent should be lazy and not work, also why have so many kids if you can't take care of them....birthcontrol is free at the clinic.

2007-05-10 13:47:26 · update #1

ok...here's more...so this could get very long. Where I live they base the amount of foodstamps you get on how much money you make, which I can understand to some extend...I mean if you work you can afford food, but it also influences people not to work so that they can get more....y you ask?....because they can sell them. I live near alot of people who give thier cards to other to ue in exchange for cash....which is another reason I think you should have to work in order to get it.
Also someone said something about drug testing not being free....well if they stopped giving all this money to people who don't deserve it they could afford the testing.

2007-05-10 13:57:35 · update #2

And to "G" I homeschool my daughter for very good reasons....EX: my mom went to go pick up my is from the same school my daughter would be attending, in the hallway she heard a little boy ask a little girl for a head job, and the girl said "again?" I would NOT put my daughter in any place that has that, you might call that the reason I'm on welfare, I call it good parenting! And any mother who loves thier child and could prevent them from being around this would. Also even if I worked (considerig wages around here) we would still need the assistance. And what my husband and I are doing is way better than sitting on our as$eS while others pay us, my husband works and pays taxes, so what we get I think we deserve. (at least until we get on our feet)

2007-05-10 14:06:01 · update #3

Ok, Jenny, seems to me you know what you are talking about. BUT I can definitly justify myself with you. I do attend school, not right now of course, my school is out, I start back in Sep., I have one semester left until I graduate, majoring in Interior Design. So, at that time, my husband will be working, I will be going to school, and still homeschooling my daughter. I don't consider homeschooling a luxury, I consider it rightfully protecting my daughter, from chit she doesn't need to be around, she is the future of the United States of America, and I want that future to be bright. So if that means I have to be called welfare trash or whatever else I will do it for my daughter.

2007-05-11 06:03:49 · update #4

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Thank you so much for asking this question and for stepping forward. You are the types of people who don't take advantage of the system year after year. You work to help yourselves and realize that it's a temporary situation.

That's were our system fails miserably and angers so many of us. A system that doesn't encourage people to help themselves and merely tosses hard earned dollars in their direction without getting anything in return, is a failed system. Look at France and some of the other countries. That is precisely where they are at right now and it will break a country and the workers who provide the income to support it. It also angers those of us who see what's happening out there!

Yes, I agree, drug tests should be mandated. If you live off of the public trough and expect the hard earned dollars of others to support you.... NO drugs!

Those who are ablebodied should work for the help they're getting. I don't care if it's picking up trash on the highways.

This is one time that I happen to agree with Chi Guy. :) (Blows me away)... hehehe

2007-05-10 14:03:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3 0

Okay, this is a tough question with lots of emotions and pride attached to it. I don’t' want to offend you, because you seem to be trying to do right. And it's tough out there. Prices are high, rent is high, everything is high, and it's hard to make ends meet or just get by on one salary.

Each family has to make decisions on how to handle finances and what they are willing to live without to afford what they can't live without. And everyone needs help occasionally, and that's nothing to be ashamed of.

But...

You are one of the able bodies who are not working. I know. I truly believe that at least one parent needs to be home with the children at all times until they are older. I think that parenting is a very important job, THE most important job a person can do. Our future depends on how well or poor we raise our children.

Many people across the country raise perfectly well behaved, well adjusted children who attend public school. I feel that being able to home-school your child is a luxury. When a family makes that decision, then they should also plan for the hardships that could arise. Working people, such as your husband, already pay taxes for local schools. For you to home school your child instead of work while she is at school, it's costing the tax-payers more money for your food stamps.

See what I mean? If a person makes a decision not to work, for whatever reason, then why should the expense fall back on tax-payers?

If a person can't work because they are disabled, sick, or elderly, that's not a decision they made and they should be helped and cared for.

If a person is having a hard time finding a job and is looking for one, they should be helped.

The only reason I could justify not working and receiving public assistance is if the person wants to get an education. Now, if you were to take this opportunity to better yourself, go to school, learn a trade or skill in order to help support your family in the near future, I'd say that was just fine. I'd rather teach a girl to fish then feed her every day. Give her all the help she needs to succeed.

Health care for children whose parents can't get insurance through work or can't afford it, I don't have a problem with. That should happen. Every child in this country should get medical treatment when and where they need it.

I know there are so many who abuse the system, and you're not one of them. I've said to you what I would say to my own child or family member. We have to make tough decisions and then we have to live with them. I think if everyone practiced the golden rule, there would be no problems like this.

Oh and btw, I don't believe in drug testing to get benefits or keep benefits, or to get and keep a job. The war on drugs is a lost one. People are not going to part with their vices no matter what. Drug testing like this will leave people desperate and cause the crime rate to soar. There are laws against drugs and that's enough. Drugs are not keeping people on welfare. Lifetime recipients raise more lifers. It's a cycle that needs to be stopped. These people are just as enslaved by welfare, as surely as the slaves were.

2007-05-10 16:57:17 · answer #2 · answered by ? 6 · 0 1

Ultimately it have to be the buyers accountability due the mechanics of provide and insist. If the customer demanded better welfare and boycotted meat that was once now not reared to this general then it might not be produced. However, it is very convenient to make the correct choice re: ethically sourced meat if you have a small retaining in Dorset and your possess TV sequence. I might by no means darken a grocery store's doorways once more I've I lived such as you Hugh, why might I have to? However, whilst you live to tell the tale a council property in probably the most disadvantaged locations of the nation and you are the one one running to your family as your companions misplaced his task as a result of the recession, it is a bit extra complex to select the £eight loose variety hen from the butchers over the £three one from the grocery store. I do attempt to take the prime avenue and cross to my butcher and something I purchase I by no means throw any of it away, it is all utilized in stews and soups and frozen if I can not believe what to do with it (even the bones for inventory) but if I've received £30 to live to tell the tale per week and a wintry weather gasoline invoice bobbing up it isn't so reduce and dried as "Is animal welfare my accountability' and alas a £three hen will feed us for three-four days the identical as an £eight one will.

2016-09-05 16:41:03 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

First to Golden...Uh...Maybe hubby and wife work different shifts till the kids get in school like the rest of us???
I live in California. And it is GOD AWEFUL!!!!!
Other states impose limits on welfare. It is common for those to come to California as we give aid beyond Federal Guidelines.
We have job and school programs, yet less than 20% of those who sign up ever attend.
We are now working on 2nd and 3rd generation Full Time Welfare recipients.
I applaud you for your efforts. However here it is very difficult to get help if you are working or try to better yourself. We give free needles to addicts but give very little in aid to those who want a "Hand up, not a Hand out".
There would never be a hungry, cold, or homeless person in the U.S. if we just mandated and enforced the rules.
Our Polititians here will not allow that. 70% Dem. in the State Senate and Congress. That's who votes them in.
How about this: 5 year program, as long as you are drug free, (Or getting help for that), woking toward a job skill, healthcare provided, food stamps, housing, child care, and job placement assistance. If at that time, unless there is a Medical or Health issue, you need a job. If there is no reason, then you are assigned a job.
That way we are helping people break the cycle, and giving aid to those who need it. But they must be helping themselves to participate. If they are illitrate, they are given more time as some were never taught to read.
If we eliminate the fraud and waste, no one has a problem with paying taxes to help people.
I do have a problem, supporting someone who has more kids to get an extra check per month.

Oh, but wait, all that IS IN PLACE NOW, however less than 20% take advantage of it!!!!!!!!!
Oh, but the Illegals, or their kids born here by crossing the border, get aid.
If enough people took the time to look at Government numbers, they will see that 55% of our Nations Budget is spent on Social Programs. Let's cut out the Fraud!!!!!!!
And this has gone on for years!!!
Thanks LBJ for the "Great Society" and creating an entire generation of blood sucking leeches.......

2007-05-10 14:07:34 · answer #4 · answered by Ken C 6 · 2 0

First, I applaud both you and your husband for the efforts that you are making to do the best that you can under the circumstances that you find yourselves in. It is truly the American Spirit! The assistance that you do receive is well-deserved. I wish your family the best.

As to your question, I believe there should be sufficient assistance for all to insure that they remain alive --- regardless of their lack of effort to improve their lot. By this, I mean food, shelter and basic medical care given in a manner that cannot be used for any other purpose (e.g. no money or other chit that could be sold for drugs, entertainment, or other such activities).

Welfare programs should be as you said (well, as I interpreted was you said), to encourage and assist the recipient to better themselves. Unfortunately, in the current climate of this country, such programs would be seen as discriminatory. So, someone much smarter than I will have to come up with the charisma to influence the electorate to establish a government that can meet this challenge.

2007-05-10 13:55:34 · answer #5 · answered by ML 5 · 3 0

ideally, only those between jobs or in school... of course, there are many jobs that pay very little, which greatly complicates the situation... and the educational system is in a state of emergency for many poverty-stricken areas, making everything EVEN MORE difficult...

just out of curiosity, how are you using it to better yourself?
your kid could go to public school and you could work.... LIKE MOST PEOPLE... and you probably wouldn't be on welfare anymore...

yet, you throw stones at others, while your decisions seemed to have squarely placed you on welfare, as you claim their decisions did?

at least they seem to be disabled by drug use or ignorance to some degree in their actions?

EDIT: if what you say is true... then THE CURRENT STATE OF EDUCATION IS 10 TIMES MORE A PROBLEM than welfare is or probably ever will be, on any topic mentioned here is...

and maybe those schools are a big part of the reason why so many are on welfare... hmm, wonder where the girl mentioned in your story will be in 10 years? on welfare maybe?

and, while I'm not a Republican, many would say "you should move then" as I don't think these are problems in most public schools... just saying...

2007-05-10 13:53:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 2

It's there for people who really need it as a temporary situation until they get on their feet,
there are people who will try to abuse the system,
but that's why there needs to be safe-guards, restrictions and close monitoring to make sure it's going to those who really need it and they are attempting to better themselves.
There have already been made a lot of welfare reform over the years, especially under Clinton.

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Also, in my state, you have to prove you have an income with pay stubs in order to get food stamps or welfare, and it's very hard to obtain,
and the only people who can get medicaid are poor, single pregnant women/mothers, and again, you have to prove with pay stubs how little you make in order to see if you qualify. The same thing for head-start program, you have to prove your income.
And like everywhere else, you have to prove you are disabled to obtain Social Security benefits.

2007-05-10 13:47:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3 0

People like you who actually need the help and put forth effort to eventually support yourselves by working. Also the disabled, elderly, and people who are otherwise unable to care for themselves. But they should be monitored; so much for rent, so much for food, so much for bills, etc. Drug tests would be a good idea, as would mandating finding employment, unless age or disability prevent them from doing so. Also offering education and health resources.

The system as is is too easily worked by the above mentioned usual suspects; junkies, prolific breeders & lazy welfare frauds.

2007-05-10 13:57:11 · answer #8 · answered by tiny Valkyrie 7 · 2 0

Disabled,old,Poor people with children should receive help ONLY if they help their selves and ONLY for a short time. I'm a single woman with custody of 2 of my Grandchildren, I work 10-12 hours a day. We don't receive food stamps,medical or cash. If there is a will there is a way! As long as I am able I will keep on keeping on~

2007-05-10 13:52:33 · answer #9 · answered by Classic96 4 · 2 0

Very, Very few. Stop teaching entitlements. Many at DHHR have a lot of kids do it for the welfare dollars.

Welfare is a trap. There is a large mote when one attempts to work themselves off welfare. One losses more side benefits than the increased dollars earned.

2007-05-10 13:47:04 · answer #10 · answered by viablerenewables 7 · 3 2

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