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Originally Posted by RogueGypsy
I re-read my post and obviously omitted a system for the truly needy, whom I do believe exist and do deserve our help. I would not want nor intentionally suggest they be deserted.
The rest however are dirt bags. If you have doubts, buy some Kevlar and hang out in the projects. The vast majority of the residents I've encountered are junkies or baby factories. The former openly discuss wanting more kids for a bigger payday. Sure they get the most press, but I've met may others walking around in daily life. People too fat to comfortably move about. I don't think I, or anyone else should have to pay for their poor diet choices. People with too many kids to support themselves. People who've never worked a day in their lives because their parents didn't. People with nondescript 'medical conditions' . For every 1 deserving person I've met, there are 4 or 5 who are just plain lazy. This is not something local to my locale either, I've lived all over the country in my lifetime and found the same in each place East, West, North and South.
As for forcing people to work in an economy with 10% unemployment. To me sounds much better than paying someone to sit around and do nothing in an economy with 10% unemployment. At least working there is some return. If the check is being written anyway, why shouldn't they earn it?
Of course I'm a little biased, I'm usually working 2 or 3 jobs just to make ends meet. The third job I work usually covers the amount the government takes from me to support those who don't work. So I'm sure you can see where that makes me wonder why they can't support themselves or contribute in some way.
Very few people are completely useless, every day I see disabled and impaired people leading happy and productive lives. Suggesting anyone short of a quadriplegic or a similarly physically or mentally debilitated person is incapable of helping to sustain themselves is simply untrue. Fuck look at Stephen Hawking, he really makes them all look like cunts. He's strapped in a chair drooling on himself, but some guy with a twitch needs our support???
Welfare has become a way of life for many families in this country and it needs to come to an end.
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Welfare, as you described it, came to an end in 1996, with the passage of comprehensive welfare reform, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act that, in effect, ended welfare as an entitlement program, and imposed requirements that recipients to begin working after two years of receiving benefits and placed a lifetime limit of five years on benefits. Some states have imposed stiffer restrictions and there are a few exceptions in the federal law so as to protect the health and welfare of children after the five year time limit.
As a result, the percentage of individuals receiving welfare (afdc/tanf) dropped from over 5% of the total population in 1995 to under 2% by 2006.....only rising again in the last few years because of the recession.
Using the Reagan "welfare Cadillac queens" and "junkies and baby factories" type anecdotes is dishonest and disingenuous...and years out of date.