Do you think the Red States get too much welfare-food stamp help from the government?
596538
Good point they should receive less help then the blue states because they obviously do not need it.
1184952
I think that there is no problem for ppl who are needing help to get it.. as long as they arent abusing it.. There are mothers out there and Fathers who are working 2 to 3 jobs .. just trying to make ends meet.. and they are paying more into the state each month then they are recieving in help.. So as long as it is in that perpectum.. then thats fine.. what i do not like are alot of ppl and Cultures that sit on there butts doing absolutly nothing.. poppin out babies left and right.. and robbing the state and other ppl who really need the help.... That is so wrong of the State to let ppl abuse that Use of help..
519392
All welfare is a communist scam.  We could immediately and dramatically improve the quality of life in the US by ending almost all welfare (keep welfare for "helpless" people....seniors, the handicapped etc.).  No welfare for unwed mothers (have to add this last because some jackass always includes them in with the helpless).\n\nWe could also vastly improve world events, albeit it would take more than a generation, by ending most foriegn aid (including foriegn aid disguised as free trade).  Specifically, aid should only flow to enlightened countries that are democracies with the rule of law.  They should mirror our system and our values if they want aid.  For example, Israel should get lots of aid and other help from us.  The nazis in palestine should get none and be allowed to starve to death, fixing the problem in the middle east.\n\nOne insidious form of foriegn aid that is threatening the world with a nuclear holocaust is our dependence on foriegn oil.  Few people know this, but the US has, by far, the largest amount of oil of any country, within our borders.  Shale oil alone, could supply 100% of our needs for at least 500 years.  The reason we BUY oil from other countries is as a means of supplementing them with our business.  Many of these people are evil and need to suck and die.  Which they would rapidly do without the american petro-dollar.
752855
it is very bad now\n\nmy father lost his job during a strike, he had broken his hip 7 years ago, SO he could've just applied for welfare, BUT my dad went to therapy and got back in shape, and he continues to work hard \n\nbut, i know someone who had a back problem, and QUIT his construction job, applied for welfare, and now he gets the following\n\nFREE HEALTHCARE, FREE PERSCRIPTION DRUGS, FOOD STAMPS, $550 A MONTH, AND HE DOES NOT PAY FOR CAR INSURANCE OR GAS, THAT IS ******* REDICULOUS\n\nwe need another welfare reform now, abolishing welfare for illegal aliens, lazy people, or people who fake disabilities\n\nit should go for REALLY disabled Americans
976642
No.  What the govt needs to do is make sure that the people on food stamps and welfare are actually citizens.  There are a lot of illegals in the "welfare"system and it truly irritates me.  I need help and I can't get it but people who aren't citizens walk in and get whatever they want.  The food stamps and welfare are for citizens who need short-term help for whatever reason.
598511
So if you want money from the government (in other words, if you want the government to do its job, which by necessity includes handing out money for various reasons) you shouldn't complain about it?\nSilly girl.\n\n1) They're often complaining that the Social net is being attacked.\n2) There are plenty of republicans on welfare.\n3) They're not complaining about the government, they're complaining about individual parts of the government, and individual persons IN the government.\n4) There is more to life than Red & Blue. Those are the two big parties here, but there are plenty of other voices that you hear daily. \n\n-Stephen
1026550
pachl@sbcglo: Why is it when the government is trying to help poor people do better things and help them that Republicans cry about it, but when Republicans try to help companies by giving them more money, it's ok?\n\nOil companies can use the tax cuts to pad their profits, just as easy as welfare recipients can use their money for cigarettes.. the only difference is one is probably a few billion dollars and the other is $4... \n\nThe fact is you don't know any more what the oil companies are doing with the extra money than you do the welfare people...
1014532
You are absolutely correct!  Our gov't likes to look good, so they keep hidden a lot of things.  They help other countries, do you think they do it out of the goodness of their hearts.  Of course not, they are always getting something in exchange for the help.\nI heard that the USA has stockpiles of foods put away that would feed the whole world for years and years, even if this is true, do you think the USA would just give it away for free. I don't think so.\nI LOVE the USA, however the people we have in authority are greedy and corrupt.
290885
No.  They'd lose much of their support in the red-neck states.
830183
Great idea.. sue the government for diverting tax dollars to non-citizens through medicaid, food stamps, welfare, public schools.  It may be the only way to address the problem.  Until we take away all these reasons to invade this country, the problem will get worse.  Their effect on wages (just look at the unchanged minimum) has been devastating.
1161380
Repuglicans like to lift the top box. They assume that all the boxes will follow, democrats lift the bottom box and all the boxes move. It really is that simple. For those of you that are talking welfare reform, where were you when Clinton did it. He started the welfare to work program. In Michigan you have two years to get to work and four years lifetime and you are on your own. None of you blink about spending 10 billion a month on a war that should have never been. To bad that repukes are so indifferent to the poor, because the are just an illness or a lost job away from joining the corp.
943166
Every republican here is UPSET about welfare, and demand reform, and know welfare is STEALING THEIR $$$.\n\nBut I already know from previous question I've asked they actually know ZIP about it.  They just like to bitch and talk out of their ass.
801486
Nice! \nDemocrats all the way baby!!!\n\nRe: Mei-Lin...You have no knowledge of assistance programs if you are going to make the claim that people that receive assistance simply are refusing to work. Taxes fund lots of programs such as social security and Medicare--do you want to take that assistance away from your grandparents? If not why then are so programs people deserving of and others they are not according to you? Are you aware that the large majority of people seeking welfare do not actually get it? In 1996 the nation had a major welfare reform. Welfare is no longer an entitlement program. If people seek welfare and they are able to work they typically receive no cash assistance. These programs are not easily accessable. So, that FAMILY may go without food or housing or heat until that parent can find a job. Is that ok with you? Do you want children going hungry? And, the majority of people receiving welfare are on it short-term, an average of 1-3 years. Also, people receiving welfare overwhelmingly have major life problems. A large percentage of recepients have a history of domestic violence, learning disabilities, mental illnesses...and the list goes on. Thus, these are not parents refusing to work these are parents with significant barriers to healthy life functioning, which includes maintaining employment. There will always be people that need help in any society and if those people do not recieve adequate help it will negatively effect the society. \nSecondly, in your republican mantra you stated that people should get their money back because they work hard. Question...city services among many other things need to be funded do you understand that that requires taxing people? It always seems that conservatives fail to see that taxing is necessary to provide citizens adequate services. You get something in return for the money you pay.
423264
Because it is more responsible to spend your own. The more money you take from the government the more taxes you pay, or the bigger our deficit gets. Also I think most Americans get there fair share of government money.\n\nA homeless man on food stamps probably doesn't use the interstates and state roads. You probably do not use food stamps but do use the road. I think the amount of "welfare" the government gives out is equal, in fact I think rich and middle class people may recieve more goverment subsidy than poor people.\n\nAnd if for some reason you don't like the government "wasting" money on food stamps, housing and other services, then donate money to a not for profit that does something that you support, the more you donate to the not for profit, the less taxes you'll pay.
992939
There is not enough help here because people cheat the system.  I worked in a convenience store once upon a time and I used to watch people take the cash benefits for their assistance out of the ATM.  Instead of buying diapers or whatever it was intended for they would buy beer.  There was NOTHING we could do about it.  On the other hand there are people who could and would qualify for help but are too proud or embarrassed to do so.  Their children could have had a better life but the lady at the WIC office was nasty to them (aren't all WIC offices like that?) so they don't get the extra food for their children.  Our country has a lot of problems but children don't have to starve to death here.  If someone is truly without means and is destitute they can get help but it will not be a comfortable life...just a meager one.  \n\nThe comment about the neighbors vermin is so true as well.  We take the tired the poor though not as openly as we once did.   People all across the world resent our country and if we didn't help and were able it could grow to larger hostility.  Look what happened when France didn't support us.  People were anti France.  Some people still have a bad taste in their mouths about Switzerlands neutrality.  IF the US hadn't been so quick to sit on their hands in WWII who knows how many lives may have been saved.  Though since we did we had fresh amounts of troops and because of the attack on our own country a motivated country behind the troops.  IF we had gotten in the suck earlier the outcome could have been different for the worse as well.  But I can't imagine people in those days spitting on soldiers and calling them baby killers like they did in Vietnam.  \n\nImage is everything and you cant please all people all of the time. \n\nMoney....there will never be enough to please everyone.
1142837
Thanks for asking.  Here's the answer.  The government should never, ever, hand out money, or anything of value for that matter.  The fraud involved in that method is vast.  Make sure the people are getting what it was intended they get (eliminating, for example, the old food stamps for crack barter).  Concentrate hard on eliminating the waste and fraud inherent in the system.  Every dollar you save by eliminating fraud and waste could be used to get these people off welfare (at no additional cost to the taxpayers).  Education, job training, relocation.  Once you have a good system for getting people off welfare, then you can start to install restrictions to "encourage" the less motivated.  You could also clamp down on fraud and waste in other government departments and use that "free" money to get people off of welfare and out of poverty.  Done.  Next problem.
730897
I agree 100%. WE should be getting the government fund first and foremost. If they want them things then their country needs to come up with them. We have homeless and jobless people right here in the US that were born and raised AMERICAN and they can't get money from the government. Look at how they are treating most of the veterans, alot of them are homeless now, because after the war, they had nothing and no where to go. We like in a broken country and it needs Jesus