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Wellfare (A crack in the system)
GoodLuvn169:
Wellfare is an unneeded infringment on economic freedoms in America. Just to prove how fucked up this system is I will tell you all a true story.
A yougn woman in America has a child out of wedlock. The mother needs to work two jobs to support the child and herself. The two jobs earn a little over minimum wage. Sadly the woman has to quit her job to take care of her child. She applies for wellfare. Under wellfare she was recieving more money then she was making when she was working. So that means someone somewhere else who is working hard to get by is paying for someone else who isn't working to live better then they are.
There are thousands upon thousands of cases like this.
white Boy:
yep
M Dogg™:
Misconceptions. I should know, my family was on welfare for about 7 years.
First and foremost, if you are working, you are paying taxes for welfare, and if you run into trouble, then you should be intitled to some help. Now welfare doesn't give you that much. It's alittle bit more than working min wage in the U.S., and in California that's less because our min wage is 6.50, so you make more working two jobs than welfare. Now for other states, and Cali, you need a good reason to get welfare. It can't be, oh I'm a crack head I need welfare. Social workers check out your situatiion, and say you have a child, if it is better that the child has a parent at home instead of them always being gone, then they'll give you welfare so that the child can be raised so that they don't grow up to be trouble makers. Remember, once a child is born, the most important fact is the child, not the parent. The parent has messed up, now it's time to try and get that child to have a good home, if the parent is a crack head, then they take the child to another home. Now when that child becomes old enough to take care of themself after school, then the parent has many welfare benefits taken from them, and also well on welfare they put the parents on job programs, or encourage them to go to school. My dad went back to school, and got a Alcohol/Drug Studies Certificate, and a Human Service B.A., and now is a Alcohol counsler, so welfare basically paid for someone to be trained to help alcoholics and drug addicts. Also, our welfare benefits stopped basically when my sister was 13, and so, you have to understand the welfare system before you knock it.
GoodLuvn169:
--- Quote from: M Dogg on July 15, 2004, 02:44:57 PM ---Misconceptions. I should know, my family was on welfare for about 7 years.
First and foremost, if you are working, you are paying taxes for welfare, and if you run into trouble, then you should be intitled to some help. Now welfare doesn't give you that much. It's alittle bit more than working min wage in the U.S., and in California that's less because our min wage is 6.50, so you make more working two jobs than welfare. Now for other states, and Cali, you need a good reason to get welfare. It can't be, oh I'm a crack head I need welfare. Social workers check out your situatiion, and say you have a child, if it is better that the child has a parent at home instead of them always being gone, then they'll give you welfare so that the child can be raised so that they don't grow up to be trouble makers. Remember, once a child is born, the most important fact is the child, not the parent. The parent has messed up, now it's time to try and get that child to have a good home, if the parent is a crack head, then they take the child to another home. Now when that child becomes old enough to take care of themself after school, then the parent has many welfare benefits taken from them, and also well on welfare they put the parents on job programs, or encourage them to go to school. My dad went back to school, and got a Alcohol/Drug Studies Certificate, and a Human Service B.A., and now is a Alcohol counsler, so welfare basically paid for someone to be trained to help alcoholics and drug addicts. Also, our welfare benefits stopped basically when my sister was 13, and so, you have to understand the welfare system before you knock it.
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I think it's wrong if someone who is working is making less then someone on wellfare, thats fucked up. Even if you're for wellfare you can agree that the system needs to be revised.
M Dogg™:
--- Quote from: GoodLuvn169 on July 15, 2004, 02:47:55 PM ---
--- Quote from: M Dogg on July 15, 2004, 02:44:57 PM ---Misconceptions. I should know, my family was on welfare for about 7 years.
First and foremost, if you are working, you are paying taxes for welfare, and if you run into trouble, then you should be intitled to some help. Now welfare doesn't give you that much. It's alittle bit more than working min wage in the U.S., and in California that's less because our min wage is 6.50, so you make more working two jobs than welfare. Now for other states, and Cali, you need a good reason to get welfare. It can't be, oh I'm a crack head I need welfare. Social workers check out your situatiion, and say you have a child, if it is better that the child has a parent at home instead of them always being gone, then they'll give you welfare so that the child can be raised so that they don't grow up to be trouble makers. Remember, once a child is born, the most important fact is the child, not the parent. The parent has messed up, now it's time to try and get that child to have a good home, if the parent is a crack head, then they take the child to another home. Now when that child becomes old enough to take care of themself after school, then the parent has many welfare benefits taken from them, and also well on welfare they put the parents on job programs, or encourage them to go to school. My dad went back to school, and got a Alcohol/Drug Studies Certificate, and a Human Service B.A., and now is a Alcohol counsler, so welfare basically paid for someone to be trained to help alcoholics and drug addicts. Also, our welfare benefits stopped basically when my sister was 13, and so, you have to understand the welfare system before you knock it.
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I think it's wrong if someone who is working is making less then someone on wellfare, thats fucked up. Even if you're for wellfare you can agree that the system needs to be revised.
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In most cases, you make more money working. It's just min wage is so low. Welfare gives you barely enough for rent in an apartment in a shitty area, and bills. Then you get food stamps to get some food. That's about it, and with min wage, it's the same. Now most people, even living in intercities, make more money working than on welfare. Welfare came because single mothers were struggling. It was hard to be a single mother, and they could not raise their kids and work. You have to make a choice, work or raise your child. Now I think, and at the time so did most of America, that the child is the most important thing. But we are a U.S. that's about indivualism now, the betterment of someone else, no matter how small that person is, is non of our concern. Our family morals are lowered, not just by Democrats, but by Republicans who would rather see that mother work and leave that child alone to raise themselves. If you make more money on welfare than working 9 to 5 min wage, and then an extra 20 hrs min wage after that, than raise min wage. But min wage jobs are not ment to support someone with, but to be jobs that dependence have to enter the work force. Trust me, you can't raise a family on min wage, and you really can't on welfare. But the stress of working 2 jobs on min wage is worst than welfare, and parents stay at home to take care of their child, so guess what they pick. Remember, the main thing is not the mother, and if you want her working or not, it's raising that child. You take that mother away, that child has no one there to watch them, and that child has potental to get in all types of trouble.
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