Eating Welfare Options

[Tung]

After watching a documentation on welfare and the on going problems all over the U.S, I think it's debatable if having welfare a good thing or a bad thing. The general assumption towards people with welfare are that they are lazy, and just stay at home and "eat" the welfare money given to them.

That's not entirely true, and that most of these people who live on welfare, works other low-paying wage jobs just to have enough to eat. They work long hours, just to support their family. Most people on welfare don't speak english at all, and it's very hard for them to find a good paying job. Also, most of this people, are immigrants who have no skill whatsoever.

The question I raise is, should welfare be something giving this people for a long term, or should there be some kind of maybe 5 year deal, so that they get the five years to finally get a good paying job, so they won't need welfare anymore. I'm against having a X-amount of years where you should only get welfare.

You have to look at where these people are coming from. I mean, there's people who've been on welfare for 20 years now, and we complain about that. Such as "it's been 20 years!, how can you not have a job that pays decent, without having welfare, while I'm working my butt off here, and I get my paycheck cut off from the Welfare Department just to support lazy people like you" What is your stance on this? Should welfare be something that have an x-amount of years given to someone, or should there be no limit as to how long you get welfare?

[S-Majere]

I'm from the UK and as far as welfare goes, being on the dole in many ways pays better than what holding down a job actually would.

I'm certainly not against helping people out when they struggle - and people really do struggle; but when you can sit quite comfortably on the dole for years and years, popping out kids for extra grants and tax returns it's then that I question the entire system.

There's a LOT of abuse that goes on regarding it. Personally, I feel the UK is far too soft - I can't say for the US, however, but is there not a limit as to how long one can be on benefits?