Welfare Children Becoming Adults Who Have Learned To Play Thr System

To this post, I would just like to share this quote: "Give a man a fish and he will feed for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime." Nice, right?

think it will run continuously if allowed to remain like this. Indeed, if it is seen and felt this would be very annoying.

Yes it is a big social problem, no easy answers to fix it either. But a lot of good people come out of the ghetto and make a life for themselves elsewhere. I love it when I see them giving back as well.

Hey-- I feel you, Tina-- our current government not only rewards failure, it also punishes success. Right now, 55% of Americans are receiving some form of government assistance-- and that doesn't include all the illegal aliens receiving assistance as well. And the government actually ran commercials on Spanish TV stations AND IN MEXICO encouraging Hispanics to apply for food stamps. It's disgusting. We pay farmers not to farm, and we pay jobless people extra money for having more children, which is senseless. Less than 30 years ago, only 19% of Americans were receiving some form of assistance, and almost half of those were getting social security or disability/ Medicare-- not welfare or food stamps. It really makes me angry to be behind someone in the grocery checkout line with a cart full of sodas, expensive steaks, TV dinners, chips, sugary cereals and all kinds of other expensive or unhealthy food-- and watch them pull out a food stamp card. As far as I am concerned, the food stamp program should be limited in that you should only be able to use them for fresh fruits and veggies, fresh meats, dairy and eggs, and raw ingredients like pastas, beans, rice and flour and such-- for cooking from scratch. It must be nice to be able to eat 11.99/lb. filet mignon or Salmon steaks on the government dime-- which my taxes pay for. I haven't been able to afford a decent steak in about 3 years, and the only salmon I get is what I catch during salmon season up here-- and I haven't gotten lucky yet this year.

i FEEL THE VERY SAME WAY, tINA. i THINK IT'S PRETTY DISGUSTING THAT THE GOVERMENT LETS THEM GET BY W/DOING THIS & IT'S BEEN GOING ON FOR YEARS & YEARS. Thirty years ago i worked in a convenience & saw it all the time..The adults just pass it right on down to their children like it is something to be proud of.

There are so many people that don't really need help, but work the system so they can get it, they are hurting those of us that need help. It is getting harder and harder for honest people to receive the help they need because everyone is afraid of a scam. I do think it is in the way you are raised, and some people that need and deserve help are too proud to ask for it.

The idea of welfare was to merely assist people during a difficult time, not to live off of it. Sadly, all that's happening (well, mostly) is that we are perpetuating the cycle. There was supposed to have been some sort of welfare reform (welfare-to-work was a program), and I have seen at least one person succeed. She was a single mother of four young children with no education beyond high school to support them (her husband walked out and refused to pay her a dime!). She went on welfare, but took advantage of the educational programs so that she could support her children. Now her oldest went into the Marines last year, she has a wonderful job and met a really great guy. I know she's the exception, but really, we need to push welfare recipients to take what they need to be self-supporting, instead of becoming a burden. Perhaps by putting a limit on benefits received until they show initiative to get off welfare and become self-supporting members of society.

I don't know what to say other than I agree.

I feel the same. The welfare systems are making people not want to work or do for themselves...and that is not good! I think it's better for anyone to work. It gives your self esteem a boost.....unless you are just plain lazy.

My mom use to tell me to work smart and not hard; the type people you are describing are taking that idea to a whole new level. They are just not working at all...at least at a regular job. They work hard at working the system; the ones who work will work under the table or choose to be under-employeed so as not to lose their benefits. It is frustrating to see them work the system and never get caught. It doesn't do much good to turn them in, nothing seems to get done about it. I is even more frustrating to see those who really need the help be denied over and over again. Sometimes I wonder if the multi-generational professionals use up too much of the available funds so that there is not enough to provide for those who are in dire need. Whatever, the whole thing is disappointing and just plain sad.

It used to be an emergency safety net, way back when I was a child. It was considered shameful to be on welfare, yet now it is a cause for pride. I don't understand why, if a woman is on welfare, we can't give her Norplant or a similar birth control device. That would save us so much money! And crime, too, there would be so few children with no father figure that in 20 years our prisons would be roomy instead of crowded. That's just one common sense idea but there are many other ways to manage our welfare system. We voters just refuse to demand change.

I think this kind of system would not stop. But if the government seriously do their job and not for their own good might be possible. The cycle continuous until the end of the world. It's really annoying they let people continue doing it without the help from the government. Some individuals who have good heart like the persons you mention they are the models. The problem how many individuals will follow them?

yes a lot of changes should be made. unfortunately, every time the government tries, they dont make the right changes. good thing in our immediate family the trend has stopped. My oldest who was raised on it mostly because of his dads laziness and his dad came from that kind of family has always worked, and has taught the other kids to strive for the same. as a result my kids are the first in the family on his dads side to break that cycle. maybe because he was with my side of the family most of his life, therefore seeing how people should conduct their lives.

They should make the rules similar to unemployment. Once you sign up you get benefits for 6 months and possibly an extension for an additional 6 months with proof that you looked for jobs. Then it ends! No more freebies! This would get all those people who abuse the system to do something with their lives. People who work and either get laid off or fired only have 6 -12 months to get their life together. Why can't the rest of them. It would be easy if someone would just stop pussyfooting around and took a real stand with a statute that applies nation wide and not by state.