I think the welfare system in the usa should be abolished or modified?

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Dont get me wrong, I understand that some people need help sometimes, and that there are times when our economy isn't always strong enough to support all of its people. As strong as we are economically, I think we have a moral responsibility to look after those who are in bad situations and cant afford to take care of themselves.

My problem is this: we spend literally hundreds of billions of taxpayers dollars on welfare and food stamps every year on people who have no intention of doing better or even trying to be self sufficient. In the town I grew up in, the employment office, the welfare office, and the unemployment office were all in the same room. Guess which line was longest? It made me sick to look at all the 20 year old mothers living off of my sweat when they already have 4 kids at that age by some douchebag loser (or four different losers) and dont seem to be ashamed of themselves.

If we were able to cut welfare down to 20% of what it is now, Im sure we could take the money saved and give people job training. What do you think?

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  • Boojum
    5 years ago

    Hell, yeah, reduce welfare payments to 20% of what they are now.

    After all, women and kids live on the streets of Mogadishu and they manage just fine by begging, so why shouldn't the same work in Milwaukee?

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      5 years ago

      Obviously I said that we would put the other 80% into job training, which would in the long run would get most people off of welfare and into productive jobs, which is a lot better than just sitting there drawing a check that hardly covers a third of what they need.

      Now I'm not saying that this is going to get everyone out of poverty or some garbage like that, but it will get most on welfare into a situation where they can better fend for themselves.

      And dude, please tell me that you can see the difference in a place like Mogadishu and the USA. Please tell me I don't have to explain it to you.

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  • TheBlindInquisitor
    5 years ago

    It's not that simple but I understand where you are coming from with it I grew up on hard times most of my family had to use welfare and food stamps to get by.

    Truthfully welfare and food stamps don't give that much to live on and my family is complicated some are hard workers but still need said programs to get by.

    My father is a salesman who works on and off but he also suffers from decaying eye sight something I inherited from him he has to use disability checks most times and usually food stamps he hates it but he understands that he needs it when he isn't working.

    I am a hard worker myself doing the same thing as my father I wanted to do miltary or national guard but my poor eye sight was a problem.

    I don't think abolishment is the answer but enforced job training as a requirement should be a thing we have plenty of money as a nation to fund it but I don't think abusers should abuse it.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      5 years ago

      Also, do you think that you should have to pass a drug test to get welfare? I definitely do.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      5 years ago

      I guess I did make it sound a lot simpler than what it is. It would take a long time to transition from welfare to schoolfare, possibly a decade or more, not to mention the cost to implement such a radically new system. Also, let's face it, even if we got job training for everyone on welfare, there would probably not be enough jobs for them to go to. The best shot we have at getting people off the welfare system can never be perfect, and as in all things societal or economical, some will unfortunately fall by the wayside, won't they? Let's face it, some,people can't be taught skills, not because they don't want to learn, but because they are simply intellectually incapable. And you will of course always find those who are simply too lazy and worthless to care about doing any better.

      But I think in the long run, taking money spent on welfare and putting it into training programs would benefit all of us in the long term. Some people say that we can eliminate as much as 80 % of welfare by adopting such a system, but even if we only got 50 % of welfare recipients job training, look at the money we could save. That's almost half a trillion dollars. Do you know how many bombs that would buy that we could drop on Mogadishu? Then boojum would have nothing to complain about with all the poor mothers there dead. Sarcasm, of course.

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  • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk
    5 years ago

    i think that not only is it an ole complaint but if yall done that thered be fuckin pandemonium cause all them assholesd hafta start robbin for a livin

    plus some fuckheadsd start cryin racism and nothin good ever comes outta that

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  • nikkiclaire
    5 years ago

    Why were YOU, at that office?

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      5 years ago

      looking for a job. Something wrong with that?

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      • nikkiclaire
        5 years ago

        No I was just curious. I hope you are turning down unemployment and being an example.

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        • Anonymous Post Author
          5 years ago

          I've never taken unemployment, but we do pay unemployment insurance out of our checks, so I think I would take it if I really needed it, but would try not to.

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