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I was thinking about some of the changes I would like to see to welfare programs that I think would cut down on abuse and hopefully encourage more people to find work and/or better themselves and their lives to get off of welfare altogether eventually.
I like the idea of making foodstamps a program more like WIC that greatly restricts what can and cannot be bought. I believe that this would work best to cut down on waste and possibly help poorer people eat better. I don't know if it would actually cut costs however. This would definitely take some research before it could be completely implemented, but the idea is still worth trying.
And I am for random drug testing and highly encouraged, if not mandatory, birth control. I don't think people should get more actual public money for having more children. If all the other things are implemented, it wouldn't actually be needed. Although it might be a good idea to figure out some way to help with getting baby needs so that the money can't be spent on other things.
I believe that anyone who doesn't put forth the effort to improve their lives and situation, should not ride on the shirttails of others. I do approve of welfare, in general, just not the way that it is currently done. There are way too many areas for abuse from what I've seen.
I'm thinking that government assistance should be in the form of material rather than money. Or maybe it should be accomplished through a job, such as in a restaurant where the recipient is trained in the preparation of meals. They can take these skills home to benefit their families. Another job could be related to home maintenance where they work for a company and are trained on the job these basic skills which they can use to maintain their own residence.
Something along those lines.
None, as in no government assistance. Life's tough. Suck it up. Gov't isn't supposed to be mommy and daddy.
If they don't have a job then require them to go to a job placement agency. Community service required for 1 week for every 1 month without a job. I say 1 week because they should be looking for a job and if all they do is community service then they won't have time to look for a job.
No thanks. Just because people are poor gives us no right to tell them what they can and cannot eat. Make em work doing community service fine. But don't tell people what they can/cannot do.
Drug testing, sure. Mandatory birth control? HELL NO. First, accidents happen no matter how careful a person is having sex. Second, I don't care what kind of assistance they are getting from the government or anyone else for that matter NO ONE has the right to force someone into trying not to have a baby. I don't care what the circumstances are. And to be honest even suggesting it is highly offensive...and I'm being nice.
Abuse is able to be done because of incorrect or lax policies or case workers just not giving a ****. Fix those and you'll find that abuse will be curtailed alot.
I think of welfare like jail. You take away the frills, you take away the desire to milk it. I think if more people viewed prison as a Shawshank-like platform instead of a place you get hot meals, a roof and cable TV, you'd get fewer people trying to stay behind bars instead of tackling the real world like the rest of us.
If you make welfare a struggle to make ends, then you'd find more people encouraged to get off it. These days you have far, far too many people whose ultimate goal is to get on assistance and drain it for every dime they can get. When that cycle ends, only then can you fix the problem.
agreed, the current welfare system does nothing to encourage people to leave the system. I remember back to the days when I was struggling to support my family and finish my degree, I knew people on welfare that had a much higher standard of living than I did.
really? just where did you live?
I would replace 'random drug testing' with 'mandatory drug testing'.
I would also add a national criminal background check for outstanding warrants.
Failure of either means denial of benefits.
north alabama. I was working construction for $6/hr and taking 21 hours a semester, living in a ****ty 2 bedroom apartment and eating beans and rice 3-4 days a week. I knew people on welfare that were living in section 8 housing with 3 bedrooms, getting $250-300/month in food stamps and sitting on their ass all day doing nothing.
I went in and applied for foodstamps and was told I would have to sell my car (a '64 volkswagon) to qualify since the car was an "asset". When I asked them how I would get to work if I sold my car, they looked at me like I was crazy.
alabama used to have one of the stingiest welfare programs in the country, although i've never heard of having to sell your car to get foodstamps. i don't see how anybody had any kind of standard of living way back then....the benefits were incredibly low.
I was suprised as well. but the way they explained it to me was that in order to qualify for food stamps you could not have any real property assets and since I owned my car outright it was considered an asset that I could sell for cash to buy food. even though it was over 20 years old and worth about $500. but yet some POS making payments on a cadilac could get food stamps because they didn't "own" the car.
Doe that mean you'd also have to sell your house if you were paying a mortgage on one?
With cars... that doesn't really make sense. Just because you own a car doesn't mean you have the money to insure it, or buy gas for it. It could be rotting in your garage (if you even have a garage) for all they know. And having a car can increase employment opportunities. I just don't understand that.
So, how would we enforce all of those shoulds? Would we simply allow people who refuse to comply to starve?
if they are too stupid or lazy to comply then yes. darwinism in action.
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