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Originally Posted by kate jack
Wow. I'm really astonished at how many people really do think that those on welfare are manipultive low-lifes.
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No need for a new thread.
My family just recently had to go onto welfare after my father lost his job. He's near retirement, so no one will hire him, and he has not enough left for retirement. I'll be correcting this next year after college is complete and I land a good job. My good friends are on welfare making the good struggle through rough times too. Some of my good neighbors are as well. So coming from this standpoint, when it is seen there are other people abusing the opportunity to help themselves by just getting drunk and stoned all the time, it is upsetting.
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Originally Posted by Manic_Skafe
I wonder how many of you who so adamantly support the idea that welfare checks are handouts have actually considered the possibility that maybe - just maybe we pay taxes into these programs to help the poor better themselves because as a society, we need those people.
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These programs are exactly here for helping the needy. Drugs are not a need.
I agree with alot of what Tully Mars here says, we need to help people with their problems and not be giving them ways to inflame them.