What is your opinion about welfare and/or people recieving welfare?

Answer 1

There shouldn't be any. It's my job to take care of my family and no one else. My family's money should not be taken from us to give to someone that doesn't feel like working harder for it when I could be saving up to buy a house, a car, get me through college, have kids,...

Answer 2

The origional thought behind welfare was to be a helping hand not a hand out. That said, we are a country in which there are generations of individuals who know no other way of life.

The system is broke and only a complete overhaul would come close to fixing it. I believe that anyone capable of working should have to. If you are working and cannot earn a decent living wage then do what I and many others in my shoes have. Get out and find a second job. Get more education. Keep going until you work your way into better pay in order to make a living wage.

I've seen first hand on my job the "train wreck" from the current welfare system. People apply for a job, we hire them, spend the hours processing them and do the background checks. They come to work, clock out for lunch and never come back. Three days later the Welfare Dept calls to verify that they were employed by the company. We say yes but they walked off the job or quit with no notice. The Welfare Dept doesn't want to hear that. They tell us they just want to verify that they were employed. The welfare receipient goes their merry way with benifits again. They are educated for free, given paid child care while they are educated, gas money to get to school and their cars are repaired by the welfare system so that they can get to school. What a sweet deal! If we all had that, what incentive would we have to get off of our collective butts and try to better ourselves.

There will always be a segment of society that is entittled to some type of government assistance ie: elderly, developmentally disabled to name a few.

. Until the system is overhauled and more Welfare Dept. employees hired to actually investigate fraud we can expect more of the same. I feel that if you are able bodied and receive government assistance you should have to perform community service in order to get your benefits. You should have to include your children in this community service so that they can learn the lessons of giving back to their community. Perhaps the next generation would begin to see the whole picture and learn that the free ride isn't nor should be a way of life.

Answer 3

There will always be people who need help and we should not deny them that help but there are those who use the system and they are the problem. The welfare system is controlled by the government and any thing the government gets it's hands on ends up a mess and lets face it the more people on welfare the more bureaucrats who get to keep their jobs.

Answer 4

The substantial amount of the people receiving welfare do not need it, and simply steal money from all honest, hardworking taxpayers, as well as those who truly do need it. Those who receive it, but do not need it, simply do it becasue it's more fun to sit home watching Maury, drinking pepsi while simoutaneously working to produce more children they cannot afford, but they now the rest of us have to pay for. Freeloading welfare abusers should perform the following steps in the following order;

*Hop in their 2008 Mercedes Benz which they are too "disabled to work for", but have anyways. Drive to the local registry and give back the Handicap plates they are also abusing.
*While everything else they get is free, they may as well stop along the way home for a free Dr.'s appt. to get fixed.
*Stop along the way home one last time to pick up a few job applications and a newspaper.
*Read the help wanted and get a job.
*Call all 7 of their childrens schools and tell them starting the following day, they will give their child money to pay for their lunch for the first time because they just returned all of the pepsi and beer bottles that were in the living room.
*Call all 7 astranged others and tell them that they may need to become involved in the childrens lives as well since the new job starts tomorrow.
*Call the 8 year old babysitter and the local bar, and tell them you will be at home tonight.
*1 week later, get their first pay check, pay taxes, and become a productive member of society.
*Several months from now after being enraged by the amount of taxes being stolen from your check, write the same things I just wrote.

Answer 5

I'm a social scientist--I deal with the facts,not opinions (ideology).

Very few people on welfare are there voluntarily. If we want them off welfare, then the ideology--left and right--needs to be put aside.

There are methods that work. Briefly--here are the key points:

>first, recognize that there are two forms of "welfare" (whatever the specific program): short term aid for people "down on their luck." Programs like these are--or should be--short term. In cases like unemploment, they need to be tied to more compprehensive job placement and job training programs, however.

>long term dependancy needs to be restructured. People on such programs should have first of all programs for education, plus incentives to pursue that education. But they also need better support--day care, for example. And programs that penalize people for working a limited amount need to be phased out--disincentives to work are simply bad policy. One particuar point--aid now is usually keyed to the mother, not the family. Inmany cases, this results in parents seperating--becaus the system penalizes them if they stay together.

>Education: almost without exception, long term dependancy is the result of poor education and job skills. we need real reform--not ideological patches like "No Child Left Behind." Schools tht are in low-income areas are the factories that produce the next generation of welfare recipients. We need to start putting the resources in to bring these schools up to a level where the students are getting decent educations--or resign ourselves to yet another generation of dependants.

>the "liberal" tendancy to simply "throw money at the problem" needs to stop as well. Effective programs and polices are not about "feel-good" measures--they are about results. Programs that do not get results should be scrapped--no matter how dear they are to someone's heart--or political base. Programs also need to be carefully thought out, tested--and only those shown to work be fully implemented.

Answer 6

I don't owe them.

Every time they complain it should be lowered.

Anyone who is judged by an independent doctor capable of working should have to work.

No donations on the street, just give them an address of a shelter (they won't go. They don't want to abide by rules).

Stop taking away their check for working.

Take away their check for NOT working.

Make the penalties for fraud VERY high.

Answer 7

We need an FDR new deal, not handouts!

Answer 8

They should be made to prove it each year.