i know our welfare system is, for a lack of a better word...crap! And i know people abuse the system by staying on it for years and never getting their butts up and getting a job. But there are others that need a little bit of help for a few months or so until they get back up on their feet. Considering the other side of things, do you still think we should just do away with welfare
2007-06-23
06:58:02
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claude s im actually an independent...were you trying to be sarcastic or what???
2007-06-23
07:03:40 ·
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Argle how about you ask some ppl on welfare how long they've been on it...and dont tell me to get an education, i can see by your answer you need to do some research!!!
2007-06-23
07:09:54 ·
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Some people do need help, no doubt. I don't think we should throw the mentally ill out to starve. There are people with handicaps and disabilities that make work almost impossible. Those are who welfare was meant for. But those who say a drug addiction is a handicap, or those who are able bodied but just lazy, those people need to come off of it. And in between jobs should be getting unemployment, something different from welfare.
An overhaul needs to be done, but I don't think it should be done away with completely.
2007-06-23 07:07:35
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answered by JFra472449 6
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Yes! Because America doesn't have enough homeless people as it is!
You're right, though, why should you care? I'm sure you're a good person who either gives oodles and oodles to charity or you couldn't give a rat's *** about the fate of another human being.
Time and time again, the welfare system is bombarded by this stereotype of "everyone" abusing the system, taking cabs to liqour stores. We forget about the senior widows, who's late spuses pensions have run out. Put'em on the street! Or how about the mom of four trying to live off the left behind of their husband who was blown to bits in Iraq.
Yes, I realize you're living a poor, poor hungry life, and the extra $1.50 off of every paycheck could probably buy you a newer iPod. It's a "me" generation.
I'm with you. Gotta be angry at somebody. The poor's always a safe bet.
2007-06-23 07:12:43
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answered by hydrovitae 3
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I believe in helping those to help themselves. If we give them money , they must make a token jesture themselves. Like perform some small task for us. When FDR created the welfare sytem he had people rake leaves and then hired an extra guy to mess up the leaves so they can rake more leaves. The problem with welfare is that they make it easier for people to stay poor. The tax system makes it hard to be middle class. If I didn't have any benefits I would be paying 50% in taxes and I'm straight middleclass in California. We should create a system to help people who work hard and smart move up the classes, not help make things easier to be poor.
Edit: For argle bargle. The welfare system was "fixed" by CLinton, but study shows, that the welfare state has increased. That many of them move into other entitlement programs.
2007-06-23 07:08:12
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answered by Anonymous
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I comprehend the place your coming from however the education which you're proposing is incorrect. in case you will come across previous information articles from the newspapers on very almost each and every important earthquake, typhoon, tornado and etc. The witnesses are there in the previous crimson flow and the different government help application lots of the time. Even the crimson flow and the U. S. national look after has remarked on how prepared and effective they are in helping them besides by way of fact the folk who the place actually in contact interior the organic disaster. i comprehend htere grew to become right into a quite a few very great articles thanking them for his or her help and help even right here for the duration of thr 9/eleven assaults that the massive apple circumstances and a number of the different papers revealed pointing out their efforts. in case you leaf via previous information articles there are endless comments and quite a few articles thanking the witnesses for the their suggestions in the two Japan and Hati for the duration of their time of choose and in the two circumstances the Witnesses have been there in the previous crimson flow or the different important international relief application. They flew in people and numerous factors from international in the two circumstances and it did no longer flow in basic terms to fellow witnesses. After, i've got faith typhoon Andrew some years in the past, the crimson flow or the national look after actually replaced there setup to imitate the witnesses, by way of fact the witnesses have been so prepared they controlled to out p.c.. the crimson flow or national guards efforts. Unfortunatly i will not be able to remeber which company it grew to become into buh the Miami usher in and a pair othere had a article approximately it additionally. in spite of the undeniable fact that it grew to become into astonishing as very few of the witnesses at that factor have been knowledgeable in mass relief efforts. Unfortunatley there is multiple misrepresentation interior the education yet you may many times discover that any misrepresentation isn't via a good information paper yet many times from a single guy or woman or yet another non secular group altogether.
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answered by finkle 4
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I dont think they should do away with welfare because s you have stated some people need a little help once in a while although, I do think they should put a time limit on it. That also goes for government housing etc. With my job I see people abuse the system all the time and the system lets them, This is wrog, we are paying for them to abuse it.
2007-06-23 07:02:55
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answered by Anonymous
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i'm always amazed that when there is a question about welfare coroprate welfare is not included.
a good percentage of all welfare in the usa is corporate, like the subsidies that hard working americans are currently paying to the oil companies that are making record profits off of the same people who are paying their taxes backs.
is that wrong - yes.
2007-06-23 07:08:46
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answered by nostradamus02012 7
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Why does nobody ever ask the question whether they should support tax relief for rich people? Some of them manage to pay less tax than their cleaners, using all the loopholes in the tax laws. So what if a few poor people cheat? One rich person paying their fair share could pay for hundreds of poor people.
I bet most of the people here that are all for abolishing welfare would call themselves Christian!
2007-06-23 07:19:26
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answered by Anonymous
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Yes I do I think government needs to put some type of safety net for people that really do have a hard time and are poor through no fault of their own.
2007-06-23 08:31:07
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answered by ALASPADA 6
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absolutely, the fact that ppl abuse it sucks but many people need this program to survive, i have used it before ive been homeless twice so i know how hard it can be, now i make 32,000 a year because ive worked my way out, if i was told tomorrow we were raising taxes for this program it wouldnt bother me in the least
2007-06-23 07:37:54
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answered by raztis 3
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No. There will always be a need to help a certain percentage of people. I believe in helping poor/needy people, yes. I don't believe in taking care of people who live off of the public trough, intentionally taking advantage of our system.
2007-06-23 07:05:14
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answered by Anonymous
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