Isn't welfare bad for people?
917390
offcourse its good for people \nits money money why people be upset from money ?
991006
These are obviously people who either have money or has someone giving them money.   What kills me is the fact that someone who has paid taxes and worked hard and ends up on hard times, has a harder time getting welfare than someone who has never worked.  Go figure.
1128585
It's not a refund of their income tax.  \n\nIt's a refund of what they are estimated to have paid in other taxes, primarily sales taxes, for that year.  Since those taxes reduce the amount of resources people can buy, people on welfare have a very limited income with which to purchase things, and the taxes represent a much greater percentage of their income (being a flat-rate tax based on what you have to buy, not on what percentage you can afford to pay), the government assumes their income is low enough that the taxes represent an undue burden on them.  \n\nAs a result, it returns part of that money to them in order to help alleviate the burden.
1045529
people on welfare need something to talk about and unlike people who work they cant talk or bitch about there job so they bitch about welfare or bills that working people are paying for anyway.I imagin that theses people will be givin you all kinds of answers about this and all I ask is how the hell they got a computer.
173652
Welfare is welfare, corporate or social EXCEPT for the following facts:\n\n1) The Goverment gives WAY more to Corporations then it does to the poor and needy. This is just plain wrong. It helps wealthy and powerful corporations become even more powerful and rich. These corporations then fire a bunch of rank and file workers and then ship their jobs overseas. They use the our tax money to help THEMSELVES out and screw over the American tax paying public. As for the poor they get peanuts. Has anyone out there tried to live off of Food Stamps or other public assistance? If you have then you know that the money the goverment gives doesn't really do shit for you. Most working poor need public assistance just to keep their heads above water. Aren't we a "Christian" country? We're obilgated to help the poor not help the rich get more wealth!\n\n2) Whenever the rich gets a break (in getting out of paying taxes or free money) they use it to expand themselves first and then maybe they might throw a few dollars into the American public by spending it for the good of the many,\n\n3) CEO's and other power players get rich off grants while the rank and file (Joe public) get shit!\n\n4) There are lots of idiots out there that think that the poor have it easy and just get fat off our tax dollars and the FACT is that most of them are barely making it and are an inch from joining the homeless.\n\n5) The working class and the working poor pay more taxes then the rich because the rich can afford expensive tax lawyers and find the loop holes in the tax laws while the middle class and the poor pay more then the rich do. That's fucked up!\n\n6) Remember ENRON and the S&L scandels? Who made off with the money (a bunch of rich CEO assholes) and who got screwed (all the working class Joes and their families)?\n\nWhy should my tax dollars go to rich asshole and big corporations that DON'T need the money?!?!?\n\nAn ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. It takes less money to help the mentally ill in an out patient center then it does to lock them up in prison (the same goes to drug addicts and other criminals) But the corporations that keep building the prisons get richer off the goverment grants and they love it.
189454
Yep, but it will never happen until people stop getting a check because of their own poor life choices. Unfortunately all of societies parasites can vote, and since they don't have jobs, they have all the time they need  to make it to the voting booths. So, until society starts making welfare recipients feel like the failures they are again, expect higher taxes.
466021
People on welfare.  way to many. And ones that are on food stamps.  I know a few people that are able to work but don't want to, cause they don't want to lose their free stuff.  The Government needs to start checking people out a little better and if they do maybe are taxes won't be too high.  I understand that there is some people that need the help, but some are just taking advantage of the system.  Nothing makes me more mad that I go and earn a honest living and you have someone wanting you to buy some groceries, so they can have cash to go buy cigarettes and beer.
70292
yes it can; with immediate funds to live on, with child support payments with daycare and job training,\nwith medical assistance, counseling, child care training. Welfare seems to be a dirty word, but in most states it's an opportunity to become self sufficent.  yes I work in the Aid to Familys Div of labor, NY
858930
People of society can help those who are in situations where the person has ended up with more children than they can afford (for whatever reason).  Churches and private organizations have been doing this for years in an effort to help the children grow to become responsible members of society. \n\nIt is unfair that one can turn to the government and the government forces its citizens to help support people who have ended up in these situations. It's a matter of choices of how to help and where you can do the most good. Government seems to want your money without consideration of time or talent. Where as private organizations ask for money but are more than willing to also accept your time and talents to help out.\n\nWe short change ourselves in this area all the time. I really wish people would see the benefits of real charity and not in thinking that throwing money at it through taxes is going to be good enough. It just isn't good enough.
559807
are you judging someone is my q? but to answer you , welfare is there for anyone whos entitled to it and not for us to decide who gets it and who doesnt , and homeschooling isnt that easy u know and i applaude anyone who does that verses sending them to public school which will corrupt thier minds
584903
Not exactly correct.  Most of welfare expenses are not associated with "money".  They are the benefits of welfare such as "free" housing, medical/dental care, USDA commodities giving to schools, child care subsidies, educational grants going to mostly state colleges as well as the administration of the program itself.\n\nFree of course is a joke because it is the amercian tax payer who is paying for it in the way of significantly higher taxes.  You want to complain about the deficit - social spending ie WELFARE is by far the single largest budget item which the goverenment spends our taxes on.  Reduce social spending, apply the savings to the deficit and its gone in no time.  BTW - That's EXACTLY what bill clinton did.  He signed america's largest ever reduction in social spending and bingo - budget surplus.\n\nSince I answered your question, here is one for you.\n\nExactly how long and by how much would you be willing to pay your next door neighbor who came over and asked you to cover their bills.  $500 for a  week? $2,000 for a month? $30,000 for a year?  \n\nDon't you think it gets a little rediculous when the real number is in the TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS and has been going on in some families for GENERATIONS.
32280
Welfare systems have existed since ancient times.  Some use the term 'welfare state' to mean something negative, but the reason we all agree to be part of society in the first place is for the social welfare it provides.
329406
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.
475559
No, you are not too sensitive about this. I believe that everyone needs help sometimes, whether they are fortunate enough to get it from their families, or from the state. The key is: being able to pull yourself out of a bad financial situation and give back what you have recieved ( maybe not in a literal sence, but, you know??) Maybe it would be a good idea to start denying these people help. I am sick of seeing and hearing about welfare parents, I could die. I mean, some of these people drive NICE vehicles, are draped in expensive jewelry, wear very nice clothes, and pay for thier food with an EBT card. Sickening. I would like to see them get off their lazy a*s, wake up at 5:00am, and go to fu**in work like the rest of us. I'm with ya on this one- totally.
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.
322512
It is not fair.  There are alot of people who are able to work, but chooses not to, because it will cut into their free stuff.  They live better than we do.  My boyfriend HAD this friend, who came over to our house(I totally despised him)and wanted us to go to the store with him and us his link card to get groceries and give him cash, because he had no money to buy beer or cigarettes.  I went off on him and told him "You make me sick". Here we go off to work everyday and he could too, but he would rather drive around and get drunk everyday and we are paying him to do that.  I can not stand people like that.\n\nI would like to add:  I do not have a problem with some people who are on food stamps that are really trying to make ends meet.  I understand there are dead beat dads or moms that don't want to help with the expenses.  There are people that do need the help.  I just don't think its right when people are not even making an effort and have no plans to do so.
1108717
There are very few people on welfare who actually need it to survive. \n\nI was a police officer in Indiana for 15 years, and worked in a poor part of town. I've known several 2nd & 3rd generation welfare families. One scam that they do is a mother may have several children. She will let her mother (the grandmother) adopt some of the children. That way the birth mother, and now grandma, both get welfare. They all live together and it increases the amount of money they get.\n\nAnother local scam is a place called George Junior Republic. I'm not exactly sure what they do, but I do know this. It is funded by taxpayers, and they pay children to be good. We had a woman who had 6 kids; all of whom were on probation. The mother was paid to keep her kids in line by this organization. She was also on welfare. We sat once and estimated that she made betwen $3000-$4000 a month between welfare and the "keep your kids good" money. More than I made working 40+ hours a week as a cop...\n\nI couldn't begin to tell you how many people I had to fight who were on "disability" while making an arrest. Too "injured" to work, but they can sure run and fight...\n\nWelfare needs to be terminated. It breeds laziness, incompetence, and the inability to provide for yourself.\n\nLook at how New Orleans descended into chaos...what would people do if the national government collapsed? Would people who have depended on government assistance their entire life be able to survive? I doubt it...