Why do we have welfare?

Question

if a person decides to have more children than they can afford, when did that become the tax payers problem?

how many people here want more kids but cant afford them so they dont have them? exactly my point,

Did you know some women purposfully have as many kids as they can because the more you have the more money you get?

Why not remove the crutch of welfare so that people will start working hard. i work 80 hours a week and it ticks me off that i dont get a helping hand even though i live pay to pay check i dont qualify for even health care, i dont get health care and they do just because they spread their legs often quite a condrumn isnt it

Answer 1

Bleeding heart liberals are to blame. They use our tax money to provide benefits for and buy votes from the welfare queens.

Answer 2

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt developed the welfare program to help people who were starving during the Great Depression. Over time, however, the system has been twisted and perverted into something he never intended. The original idea of welfare was an assistance program that helped people stay in their homes and feed their families until they could find jobs and support themselves. Nowadays it's a perpetual handout, and we have the Democrats to thank for it. They cater to these people and give them barely enough to live on, and when the Republicans talk about reforming welfare to its original intended purpose, the liberals go screaming "They want to take away your welfare!"

I have no problem giving someone a hand up, but I have a HUGE problem giving someone a handout. Getting rid of welfare is not the answer though, because some people who are actually trying to do for themselves need it. They need to set time limits and provide job training for people who are having trouble supporting themselves, but as for the people who sit around all day watching Jerry Springer and be-bop on down to the welfare office once a month just to say "Gimme my check," they need to be cut off. You don't work, you don't even bother trying, you don't eat -- period.

Answer 3

Well the politically correct answer would be the fact that we have to help others when they are in need of a helping hand no matter what they have done. It doesn't matter if they're selling crack, having 10 kids or just not even working.

Trust me, it pisses me off to. Anyway can get work if they really try. Even if it's a crappy min. wage job.

The welfare system up here in Canada is a joke. Anyway can get it. Many people even take advantage of it i.e. working a part-time job and receiving welfare still.

We should abolish the welfare system in the United States and Canada. Or at least revamp it and turn it into a whole different program.

Answer 4

Hi,

It was and still is used to "Zone Target" certain groups
of people, so as to stay in a state of non-productive
mindless compliance. All at the expense of the Tax-
Payers of course. Much as the same way Steralization
was used some years back, thereby preventing those
same group of people to not reproduce(Biologically).
They figured that by allowing these certain groups of
people to reproduce, they would be wasting and spend
more money than necessary. Presently the Welfare
System has changed slightly, but I believe it should only
be for "Senior Citizens" who can't help themselves,
and not for young & able people who can. But also,
remember what I wrote above, it still applys as well
today.

Answer 5

I'm always amazed when cons post questions like this. They worry themselves sick about the peanuts that welfare cheaters get from the government but not the 10's of billions that defense contactors have stolen from us in Iraq nor the 100s of billions spent on corporate welfare.

Unfortunately some people came into this world not being able to take care of themselves through mental or physical disabilities. Others had such horrible upbringings it's hard for most people to imagine. Yes they can have babies but are basically unemployable. What do you want our government to do with them. Throw em' out on the street? Seeing your streets littered with cardboard "homes" and human feces is a great environment for kids to grow up in.

Answer 6

Of course the liberals cite to worst cases for welfare. Who is against caring for the sick and disabled? Conservatives oppose the system because it makes the situation in those communities much worse. Just once I'd love to see a Liberal prove that is not the case. Since Lyndon Johnson's great society, Poverty rates are unchanged and violence in those areas is way up. It's an absolute joke that Liberals accuse Republicans of not caring. You think we want poverty and violence? Rhetoric solves nothing.

Answer 7

I agree, its not fair that we have to work to pay for some lazy person who doesnt want to work but wants to have 400 kids that they cant, and dont, take care of.