Who is annoyed by welfare?

Question

I have no problem that very few go hungry in America. In fact that is one of the things I love about our great nation. On the other hand, I am getting tired of seeing people with Lonestar Cards (food stamps in Texas) buy energy drinks or they have 5 tattoos. I am sick of capbale but lazy people stealing my tax dollars. I have no problem helping diabled people or shortly helping people who have just hit hard times. I think that people on food stamps and welfare should be given the bare minimum for life. No nice apartments that they can trash or buy junk food with food stamps. They should also have to work for the government. I don't care if they do absolutely pointless tasks as long as they are not sitting around stealing my money. Does anyone have other ideas to deal with welfare?

RKO stick to the quesiton.

I am not anti tattoo. I have three of my own. I am just annoyed when I see people on welfare with professional tats and I have to pay for my food and my tats. LOL.

Answer 1

I am angered by serial welfare mothers. One child out of wedlock-screwup-2 kids out of wedlock-stupidity-the woman should be sterilized. Unfortunately, we allow these women to keep reproducing and each generation is raised in an environment where there is no work ethic. My husband worked for a housing authority that kept a roof over the heads of welfare recipients. The things he saw made him hate welfare and the people who got it. He saw an apartment that had been freshly remodeled for a family with 7 kids completely trashed in less than 6 months. What do you do with these folks? No way to sue them, they have nothing. No room in jail for non-violent offenders. I remember my grandparents stories of surving the depression-they worked hard and did without every thing and were grateful for their garden and flock of chickens and a cow and hog they butchered every year. My great uncle was a county employee and regularly picked up commodities from ditches where welfare recipients would throw them off their vehicles because they didn't want items that took some preparation time and effort. He gave my grandparents flour, corn meal, canned beef and chicken and some of the best peanut butter I have ever eaten in my life. I agree welfare recipients should be doing something for their checks. We always need trash picked up off roadways, trash separation at city landfills for reclamation of valuable aluminum, and recyclables. If a youngster happens to have the brains to absorb a college education, give that youngster a chance to escape the cycle of poverty. No one in our country should go hungry, but even the bible says if you don't work, you shouldn't eat.

Answer 2

Dude, I totally agree. What I hate even more are the Section 8 priviledges that destroy nice n'borhoods. When I bought my home 8 years ago, I had a heck of time getting approved. The n'borhood was strict from trash pick up, to street cleaning, to lawn requirements just to name a few. Now the whole f**king n'borhood is like the ghetto. I take a good look around and think to myself, "Why didn't I just become one of those assholes who chose not to work but get on welfare w/ section 8 benefit?" Then I wouldn't have to worry paycheck-to-paycheck to make the mortgage payment.

Sad part is, some people living off of SSI don't even have welfare rights. I know someone who can't get food stamps because she receives a "meager" SSI.

Answer 3

I agree with some of the points you make! I think there are many people taking advantage of the system, and its not fair to the families who really need it!! I do think there should be limits to what people can and cannot buy. But realistically, how can we do that? As far as saying people should get the bare minimum for life, they do only get the bare minimum for life! Can you support your family on $400-500 a month? Granted, they may be on section 8, but most times, they do have to pay some rent and they are responsible for most utilities. Not all section8 recipients trash their houses either! I have seen plenty of homeowners trash their homes as well. A few live in my neighborhood. Also, a very small percentage of your tax dollars actually goes to welfare when you compare it to the tax dollars used for paying our public servants, supporting our military, etc etc And let us not forget funding this war!!!

I think we just have to have stricter policies in place! Its very easy to walk into a welfare office and get assistance. A lot easier than you might think! Who's fault is that? The people who take advantage of the free money?? Or the people who hand it out to them so easily???

Answer 4

Your anger is misdirected...Nothing gets passed Congress or State Legislative Bodies with out a lobby. So who lobbies for the Poor? No One...You need money to lobby. By definition the Poor is broke. So who is responsible for passing welfare in today's age.

The trick is to follow the money...take food stamps. The food and grocery industry lobbies on behalf the poor. The poor becomes the justification for the government spending. The food and grocery industry get the money, the poor gets a sandwich and the middle class gets the bill. You need to follow the money trail and be angry at the person who lobbies for the creation of these laws and government expenditure not the beneficiary. 9 times out of 10...follow the money not the sandwich, if you want the truth.

Answer 5

Welfare was reformed during the Clinton administration. Able bodied people get cut off if they don't get a job after a certain amount of time. Who are you to judge somebody you see in a checkout line? Having tattoos does not tell you the whole story. You cannot tell what a person's circumstances are. A person may be disabled without any visible signs. A person may be caring for foster children at home or caring for an elderly or disabled relative.

Answer 6

I'm pretty much against welfare.

Sure I'd like to help those who are unable to work, or recent immigrants, with an education, who just need to get on their feet.

However I don't think it should be possible to live on welfare alone if you are able to work.

Remember than when you give to one group, that means you take from another, and frankly I don't think the able-bodied poor are more worthy of handouts than anyone else.

Answer 7

Maybe it's just the 8 billion that Halliburton has stolen in Iraq (apart from their outrageous no bid contracts), but, I don't get annoyed by welfare. My father owes his life to welfare, and as a career Navy man, he didn't mind saying so. My dad's father was a bum and my dad shouldn't have had to pay any greater price than he actually did (which was huge) for the bad luck of being born to that monster.

You are selfish and nasty in your attitude, you can't even imagine, because you are dehumanizing the poor and you are jealous of people who get one pair of shoes a years.

Answer 8

well... many of your points are actually the law...

I think federally, they have to do some work for most programs... and there is a limit on how long they can be on it...

I think it was part of the welfare acts passed by Clinton...

but also remember... the more you restrict social programs, the more the poor turn to crime... and like it or not... jail is more expensive than welfare is...

Answer 9

I think that they should have a limited time to be on welfare...just enough to get back on their feet...what kills me is if their own family won't help them why should we....My first step would be to naturally go to my family for help...they would most likely help me the best they could.....I would assume if I abused them they wouldn't help me anymore......so what I am assuming with these people that live off the system is their own families know that they are losers and will no longer help them.....so we are stuck giving had outs.......the government needs to spend more money tracking these people and giving less out....of course if they are disable they would still need help but also monitor these people....they should be implanted with tracking devices....I think they would find that these people travel from state to state abusing the system....at least alot of these people.....I know for a fact that there are people that do the illinois, iowa and minnesota residencies to collect checks and other welfare.

Answer 10

I agree. There's a lot of gov't jobs that the people on welfare could do. Just think of the cheap labor pool. They could do all the paperwork that we pay bureaucrats to do, clean graffiti around town, clean the gov't offices, Ect... If they had to work hard for their money they might reconsider having children out of wedlock and dropping out of school.


And RKO: The corporations of this country are the ones employing the people of this country. When you tax corporations you are really taxing the consumers of the corporations goods and causing the corporations to lay people off.