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?

[jesusisthebestth...]

hi bella

And I agree with Tung as well, but I much rather abolish welfare, I'm sick of stupid smelly people complaining about how we should feed them and give them hand outs just because they exist. And what pisses me off even more is that they purposely have multiple children just so they can get more money out of the government.

Wtf?! Not everyone on welfare is stupid or smelly. What kind of foolish assumption is that to make?

I would like to say that welfare should have a set time period or be done with altogether, but I know that that is unlikely. My problem with the welfare system is that it doesn't encourage people to get jobs or get off welfare...for many people it is easier to live on welfare than it is to get a job because things are more affordable, such as rent, as soon as you get a job you're forced to move out of Section 8 housing and pay your own way though you might not be able to pay that much for rent and basic living expenses.

The whole thing is screwed up is you ask me, though.