OK Vinylboy,
Do you have a idea how to keep welfare funds from being spent inappropriately?
Ummmmm... did you pay any attention to my last post? Let me repeat it for you.
Create more affordable housing, adequate jobs with job training & child care in the areas that need it the most. THAT is how you get people off of Welfare. You improve the living conditions in their surrounding areas. You don't make them feel worthless, less than or inadequate.
Again, if people want to use drugs let them...but they shouldn't be spending WELFARE money on drugs.
How very "morally superior" of you to suggest that.
You've come up with ideas to help people get off welfare but how about some ideas for stopping welfare abusers...
No. I don't find "welfare abusers" to be a problem because the amount of them are insignificant to the number of people who need it. Eliminating a handful of people doesn't do ANYTHING to fix the problem, which is helping people get back on their feet quicker. Besides, more than 50% of people who get on Welfare are off of it in 2 years or less. Some as few as seven months.
and stop already with "stay out of other's business" and "nosy" and "entitled" crap.
Then stop this "concerned citizen" bullshit.
I don't care where you came from or what you think you know.
And there lays part of the problem. You'd think listening to someone who grew up poor and somehow found a way out of it would mean something? Apparently, hearing the views of someone that actually walked the path mean nothing to you.
State something that makes you sound less bitter and angry.
State something that makes you sound less selfish, socially ignorant and greedy first.
Everything is a class issue to you.
Most issues surrounding politics have ALWAYS been a class related issue. Dig past the rhetoric and see where the roots lie.
There are plans in place to help the poor out of their hole but they aren't effective due to abuses within the system.
And considering that we now have 33 million people on Welfare and counting in this country, it's not helping much. But then again, you'll just think I'm being angry and bitter for bringing this fact up too.
Address the abuses and there will be new abuses...where should it start? where is the line drawn?
We have enough bureaucracy in place to address issues surrounding welfare cheats. Focus on getting people off of Welfare altogether and you kill two birds with one stone.
Maybe drug testing welfare recipients wouldn't work because of monetary logistics...but don't try to claim that it's just another attack on the poor.
Then really, what is it? Concern that they're doing better, based on your own superficial standards? Again, who died and made you the status quo?
You yourself lived it as you say and you've gotten out but it seems that's perhaps because your mother was more responsible than most and that you took education seriously.
It was a
lot more than that. Ironically, I know my mom may have dabbled in the sauce in her past. Too bad in your world, she would have been kicked off of Welfare when she really needed it.
Oh, and BTW... pay very close attention to the underlined. That's a MAJOR tell about your overall, discriminative viewpoint on Welfare recipients. Think twice before you respond again.