Do you think that the Goverment if working for hardworking people? or Welfare

Some of the hard working individuals behind the big boys are the ones that work hard and have very little time with their family and friends because they are needed all the time. The heirarchy have more time and can do anything they want just abouts. Pray for those who fight our wars, who help us everyday and focus on those that help us out, and not the big guys cause they have money, and they probably don't care

I tend to agree with Astonysh and samafayla33 on this. It's a few people who choose to live off the system that cause the problems. I see the middle class carrying the burden of the poor. Of whom they are little better off and close to being on welfare themselves. While I see the richest people who do little if any real work making $100,000 for every $1 someone else earns to create a product they will sell to other middle class people. In modern society it might take 20 people to create enough food and shelter to sustain 100. So, what are the other 80 people to do? If the work is split up then no one makes enough to live on. It basically breaks down to this: for everyone 100 people 50 of them can make enough of everything for everyone. But 75 of them actually are productive. The 75 productive people each get enough and maybe a little more, the 10 that own the means of production get about 90% of the production (basically everything extra from having another 25 productive people and then some), while the other 15 non-producers get a little piece from what the 75 producers get to keep. Sometimes those 15 will do small services to help, but not enough to earn a living wage. If you don't believe it, look at the distribution of wealth and how much more a CEO gets paid than the average worker under them. If you took the wealthiest people and instead of them making $15+ million per year, sometimes over a billion a year, and halved that ($7 million per year is more than enough for anyone, and far more than they could possibly produce in usable goods and services in that time). Look at the bailout alone. That would have been $2,333 to every person in the US or roughly $250,000 to everyone on welfare. Ponder that for a minute.

Why should a poor person get an education if they know that the government will see that they do not fail and will have at least as good a life style as they have now. What we have done is made poverty too convenient and too comfortable. To make poverty go away or at least reduce it you need to make it uncomfortable. Now I am not in favor of letting them starve in the streets but what is wrong with having a food distribution center where they can come and get a weekly supply of food. They may not like the selection but then that is incentive to improve. When immigrants came to this country parents saw that their children received an education so that they could get a job and move up in society. If a person wants to go to college then let them work. If we are giving them financial aid and grants then have them work in the college to earn the aid. What woulod happen if the college did not hire as many housekeepers and instead used students to work in exchange for financial aid? What about a single mother working at a day care that provided free day care for other welfare mothers who are working in exchange for her welfare check or her food stamps. Why can't the children at age 12 be doing some summer volunteering to help the family and learn a job skill. When they reach 16 they can start helping to such things as cleaning up the parks, working with city, county and state road crews. If they don't like it they always have the option of working in the private sector with out fear of losing their total benefits. The other major thing is to index the benefits so that as they make more money they lose part of their benefits rather than it being an all or nothing program. making people responsible for themselves will give them a sense of pride and a chance to improve. But that is not what the nanny state government workers want. They want to take care of them and control their lives.

No matter what is said otherwise it is plain that our country cannot afford to take care of everyone. If the liberals have their way everyone will be taken care of by the government. My question is this; where is the money coming from? Just in case there is someone who feels the liberals are NOT pushing for MORE government spending on entitlements: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/03/24-4 The poor will always be with us. There will always be those who need help. But is it the responsibility of the Federal Government to dole out this help? In scripture it is always the INDIVIDUAL held accountable for what they did for the poor. Alms were given to the religious leaders to hand out, not the king. It is not the job of the federal government to provide for the poor, it is the job of individuals and the churches or synagogues. Individual property owners where admonished in the law to leave some of the harvest in the field for the poor to glean. NOTICE; the poor were to do something for themselves (with help from others more fortunate)by going into the field and gleaning the corners of the field. When the government forces someone to give to help the poor as in 'redistribution' there is bitterness over being forced. When people are left to voluntarily give to help the poor there is no bitterness. The government is not God. http://www.earstohear.net/separation/MandatingCharity.html

Yeah! I do lament on this too. I am not from the US but this is quite similar in my country's case. The hardworking professionals are taken for granted by the government because they are focusing too much on those lazy and dependent masses. I mean, the middle class individuals have work and pay taxes dutifully but the taxes are going over those people dependent with the government. I would not rant if those people are working doubly hard to alleviate themselves, but it seems to me that they are enjoying government freebies better. This entails them to just depend on government issued relief. This is really crazy and I hate those thugs and opportunist and I really hate taxes! Sorry if I over run your topic with my rant. Just want to agree with your sentiments in here!

well the sitution in USA is geting worse very day and i don't think it will get better sooner like most people think. the sitution has reach a stage well people now young without kids live a better life than the hardworking. it because the hardworking people are a lot of thing to pay for at the end of the month so they are leave with little income with does young one have only little outcome to spend.