Welfare? Is giving welfare to people bringing them out of poverty?

Question

I dont think it does, what your opinion.

WOW -ichef - you have an amazingly responsible family don't you?

I understadn your brother, but come who in your family hasnt suckled the teat?

Answer 1

I think it allows the ones that don't want to work to remain at home on their @ss. I also think that there should be regulations on it and the people that are receiving a check should be made to get a job. I am speaking of the 18-40 year olds that are perfectly capable of working at a decent job but don't want to because they can just make another baby and have a check for another 4 years.

I should add that my father was injured at work making him permanently disabled, my mother has a 63° curve in her spine from scoliosis and cannot work due to the pain of standing or sitting in one position too long. Despite all this they both work part-time and receive a SSD check which doesn't amount to enough to live off of with 3 teenagers in the house, but at least they are working despite their inabilities to do so.

Answer 2

you know what they say...

Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day
Teach a man how to use the Internet and you won't see him for weeks.

BTW, to answer your question, no...welfare, taken as a whole, has been an abysmal failure...it perpetuates the social welfare class...living at the expense of others, while working the system. Of course there are exceptions but I'd wager that the sum total of 'real' people welfare has actually helped better their lives is less than 10%.

Answer 3

Welfare started as a quick and TEMPORARY (sorry to bust the welfare lifers bubble) fix to get one back on their feet. This was done during the time of the Great Depression and WW2 to get people back on their feet, and people used it back then as such.

Now we zoom into the future ...

... Nowadays people that are lifers on welfare think that is it the government's OBLIGATION and RIGHT to take care of them and baby them. When people like us start complaining we are label as racists. Welfare does not bring people out of poverty, it keeps them in poverty, because it is free money from the government, and many of the welfare people (this goes for WHITES as well as BLACKS and any other race) much rather spread their legs making babies than get an education and get out of welfare.

Answer 4

No it doesn't. Some people abuse the system and take the free ride, but then their life will always be dismal.
However not everyone on welfare abuses it. For example some single mothers are doing what they can, it's not easy for everyone. And they need welfare to feed their family, stay healthy, so they can transition out of poverty.

Answer 5

NO!!!! It only enables them to contiue to live off the system as opposed to pulling themselves out of the hole they dug for themselves. State help is not a bad thing, but it should be limited with conditions. A person should get a decent amount of assistance only if they show an effort to put themselves into a better situation, or if its deemed under strict guidelines that they are incapable of improving their condition. .

Answer 6

I don't think it's supposed to. They'll get themselves out of poverty, or not. Welfare is just a bottom line of keeping people from literally starving to death- because starvation is inexusable to allow within the borders of such an affluent nation.

Answer 7

Maybe you don't realize this but welfare is now on a 2 year limited period and you have to sign an agreement to be off of welfare in that period of time. They also require that you either work or go to school. Whats wrong with that? If we can send billions of dollars of unsupervised money to Pakistan why can't we help our own people?

Answer 8

I don;t have an opinion, I have a fact and first hand account...my quadriplegic borther is able to attend college because of welfare, and will end up putting back at leats as much as he took. My parents were 17 when they had us, and received food stamps while they went to school and worked. BOTH are upper middle class, and all three of us kids are college educated. My sister accepted welfare for 9 months when she was getting divorced, because her ex was still in medical school and not earining anything yet. BOTH have more than paid back. So the answer is YES. A resounding yes. But I do not base it on assumptions, prejudice, or jealousy for what others haev compared to what I think I deserve. It comes from experience and knowledge. I know, liberal concepts, right?

Answer 9

It depends on which segment of society that we're funding. If it's those who have lived off of the public trough for generations and view welfare as nothing more than entitlement. No.

If it's used to help someone along that is willing to better themselves and they view it as being temporary. Yes.

Answer 10

Having income without earning it creates poverty of spirit. Methinks the "give 'em money" folk have lost sight of that.

Workfare alleviates this problem.

Of ocurse, there are several practical problems.

Uncontrolled immigration steals jobs from born here Americans, leading to lower wages and increased poverty.

Our walk-away-and-leave-'em deadbeat Dad society frequently abandons mothers and children.

We'd do far better, imho, to subsidize employers to hire born here Americans who are poor than to simply give money away.

Solutions ot the other two issues I raise here are fairly obvious, if politically unwelcome in some circles.