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I have to agree with what's going on. I think that relying on the government for my education, food, healthcare etc. is a last resort thing, the emergency fund. Too many people live on the emergency fund simply because it is there and because they lack ambition or creativity.
My family is a case in point. I come from a very poor family, I can still remember the first time I slept in a bed, I was 12. My brothers and I slept on the floor up until that time. The only way we ate was when we got the welfare check or kind hearted people gave us bags of groceries. My cousins were in the same boat.
Now my brothers and I all make over $75k/year, my cousins are all on welfare. Only one of my brothers used financial aid to get through college, one never went to college but has been called on to be a consultant to the zoology department at three universities. My cousins are still on welfare, three of them living in the same house because they can't afford rent seperately. My parents deciding to get better and more jobs and quit welfare was the best thing they did for us.
I'm don't think that we should abolish welfare by any means. I do think that it should be used as a temporary emergency fund.
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