Former drug addicts...or...on welfare because they are poor and have an abundance of kids..and refuse to self educate themselves.
218393
No because there should be a right to free medical care (as in the British Health Service) and to free education throughout life (Life-Long Learning).\n\nWhat bothers me is that some people have to pay, when it should be free for everyone as of right in a civilised society.
200760
Many homeless people are mentally incompetent so they should be someone else's responsibility. Others are drug addicts or alcoholics and that is their responsibility.
576982
Gear the message of drug abuse toward kids and grown-ups alike, because too many druggie parents are failing at raising their children or someone else entirely is trying to raise them.
486545
I think that there are people out there who take great advantage of the system. they go job hunting once a week so they can make the counties happy and that prevents familys who really need a little help from getting it. even working families who are in a little bit of trouble and cant get emergency assistance because of the peopl who are milking it. I think working people should get help too if they need it but only for like a month. after all they work hard and do pay taxes to suport these programs. now people that cant work....thats a different story.
318577
They may have once existed...just as debtors prisons existed.  Actually it is the poor that usually do the crime and end in prison anyway.
271075
Hate is such a strong word to use. I dislike the fact that they are getting pregnant at a much earlier age but that is strongly due to the way their parents raise them. They run free, show little respect, are unmannerly, and they are making bad choices. Now you see a lot of grandparents raising their grandchildren. I believe the drug meth has a lot to do with it also. My daughter got pregnant when she was 14 because I was never there. Now she's 19 and has 3 girls but she is a good mother. I'm very proud of her. She held down a job and continued with her education and graduated. From my past experiences with that drug I knew the pregnancy rate would skyrocket since it is a stimulant. You see, I was the one with the drug problem and always gone and I wasn't a very good mother at all. She was free to run and do whatever she wanted. Luckily, I have many years to live a clean life in case I should be the one raising one of my grandchildren. So please do not lay all the blame on young women.
140051
They get paid under the table and tell the welfare office they aren't working. Or they're involved in some other illegal act to make money. Those are the people who will always want somethin for nothin. These are the same people who will go to a restaraunt and throw a fit about something with intentions of getting a free meal. I understand that some people work really hard and still don't have much. It's possible to be down on your luck but not for your whole life. It sucks that the tax payers have to suffer for all the people who take advantage of the system.
492608
Poverty?  No.  Ignorance?  Yes, in part.  I believe it's a mixture of ignorance and brainwashing.  Most are bred to be a terrorist at a very early age.  Liberty is neither a choice or an option.  They do as they are told and are only given access to materials that reaffirm their terrorist teachings.
438623
Either a failure or lazy.  Not much of a difference though.  Some people don't want to get educated, don't want to work over time, don't want to do anything to earn it.  When the Democrats make welfare so easy to come by, why should anyone work?  Theres no incentive
346695
I agree.  Another good approach would be to give incentives to people to not have kids.  For example: if someone is a criminal, a crackhead, violent, or otherwise unfit....we pay them a large sum of money to get sterilized.  That way it's not against their will and the government stays out of it except by the subject's choice.  If they're on crack or meth, they'll want the money.  Fewer neglected kids and a more stable society.
640190
How can their future develop living with those two deadbeats.  And maybe just baby's daddy smokes but mom is a deadbeat for allowing it and drinking.  The welfare is for the children, not drugs and booze.  They are irresponsible and care nothing for the children's well being.  Report them with a smile on your face for doing the right thing.
17339
illicit drugs?\nIt's greater than God to the people that use them, more evil than the devil, the poor make it(so they have it), the rich are addicted(so they need it), and most people that use them die.
182280
Er, what exactly do you mean "won't help the people that are trying to make a living for themselves?"  Where I come from there's tax breaks given for investing, programs to help you get out of debt, programs that allow remote communities access to things like the internet and phone service.  \n\nNow, yeah, there are people who find ways to exploit the system.  I have no problem if we find 'em out and kick 'em off the system.  But there are people who do go on welfare because their husband left them and they have a newborn baby and can't work because they have no one to take care of it.  \n\nI'm not saying the system is perfect, or that there aren't people who get away with cheating the system.  Far from it.  Doesn't matter if you had all the manpower in the world, you couldn't prevent some level of corruption.  But should a child starve because his mother is a thief?  There ain't no easy answers to these sorts of questions, no matter how much we wish there were.
431963
Well we are glad they are off the drugs but I do understand what you are saying.  Having a daughter who is a recovering addict, it is hard to keep up pats on the back for doing what?  the right thing that the rest of us were doing all along?  The addict is special because they decided to finally get it together and do the right thing?  I know what you're saying.  Sorry I don't have a better answer.
314419
The largest group of welfare recipients, by a huge margin, are children. Would you put them to work instead of going to school?\n\nAlmost all the remaining welfare recipients are the disabled and the blind. Just what work do you propose that they do?\n\nYou want Social Services to take the children from their parents? Now that's a brilliant idea when the system is already unable to take care of the foster children in its care.\n\nYou want to have the government set up a system of day care for the children of the poor? Just where do you think the money is coming from? Just how much money do you think we currently spend on welfare recipients per person? The average benefit nationally is less than $400 per FAMILY per MONTH.
586538
THIS IS SOCIETIES LEFTOVERS ....THEY HAVE NO FATHERS.......THEREFORE NO LIFE WORTH LIVING.THEY DESTROY WHAT THEY THINK THEY OWN WHEN IN REALITY THEY OWN NOTHING!!!!THEY ARE ILLITERATE THUGS.
503119
I work in welfare. 1/4 of the people honestly are in need, maybe they lost their job or they are a housewife whose husband left them with 4 kids and no job skills- they just need temporary help to get back on their feet. OR maybe they are working a minimum wage job and just cannot make ends meet- but those are few and far between<-- please believe. Another 2/4 are either elderly or disabled and cannot work. The last 1/4 ARE lazy bums that strive to have 10 kids just to increase their food stamp amount. (The lucky ones end up with over $2,000/month in child support so they don't have to work- chose your "lays" wisely, ladies). Then there are the single men who have 4 kids and won't work cause they don't want to pay child support (but who can blame them when child support takes more than half their checks when they do work). There are all kinds- not all fit neatly into a stereotype.