My Reply to Welfare in America
There is always some new bill being pushed to reform the welfare system but they never seem to accomplish this. Sure they remove people from the Welfare system but it usually isn't the people that need to be removed. If you make an extra twenty dollars a month they take away your two hundred dollars in food stamps. Somehow this doesn't seem right to me .How do they think you can live on a measly twenty dollars more when now you have to shell out that two hundred they took away from you for food. I have seen people use and abuse the Welfare system for years. Every time I think there is no way they would get away with what they are pulling they are granted more Welfare benefits. These people are drug addicts who spend every dime they receive from the Welfare office on drugs. They have been in and out of jail more then I can count. They don't pay any bills, or any rent. They get evicted from every place they have lived. They have never held a job for more then a day or two in their life. Unless you take into consideration what they call a job by going around to stores "short changing". This is when they go in to a store and buy a pack of gum or something really cheap and they pay with a twenty-dollar bill. Then they cashier gives them their change and they hurry up and hide some of it and claim they have gotten the wrong change back. Once these people took a vacation to Florida and they used this method of getting money the whole way down there, they made $1000.Now all those poor cashiers are having money taken out of their paychecks to make up for their register being short while these people are sitting back collecting their Welfare checks.
The problem of cheating the Welfare system runs in their family. All the kids have grown up to use the system just like they were taught. If they don't feel like paying any rent that month its OK because when they are evicted they will go to the Welfare office and play out their sad story and they will get put up in a hotel for a week or two and then they will get money to pay rent at a new place. I have seen these people have a friend write out a letter saying they are going to rent them a home and the Welfare office just writes a check out. They have no intentions of renting anywhere and now they have 500.00 to go to bingo. Every few months they will need a new vehicle to go to work. So they find one and the welfare office pays for it. Usually this vehicle is one a family member owns so it's sold back and forth.
Why doesn't the Welfare system actually check into whom they are giving these benefits to every month? There needs to be a limit and then that's it .The Welfare system needs to be prepared after the time has went by and these same people are still coming in to get whatever they can to say Hey enough is enough, Get a job. Learn how to pay your bills every month. Stop taking advantage of the government. I don't see this happening anytime soon though. These people will continue to teach their children how to scam the Welfare system and they will grow up and do the exact same things, while people that truly need help will be left to suffer and wait until the next paycheck comes in before they can buy bread and milk for their children. The government really needs to take a hard long look at the way they are doing things. Instead of just kicking all these people off welfare and saying look what a good job we are doing they need to realize the consequences to their actions. Taking a family off of Welfare because they get a twenty-dollar raise is not going to help them.
They are going to have a harder time now then they did before the raise. Let the government lose some of there money and see how they feel. They should not punish the people that are really trying to better themselves. Instead take the ones that will never work or learn how to keep a budget and remove them from the welfare system.
Published by Heather Shockney
Heather is the mom to a daughter with Autism, ADHD, ODD, Mood-D/O-NOS,obsessive compulsive tendencies, and sensory issues. We are a cyber-schooling family.She writes for a variety of online venues. If you ha... View profile
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4 Comments
Post a CommentAs a person forced to collect welfare for a period of time, I can honestly say the experience is not pleasent. I come from a long line of "welfare abusers" and I am not proud of it. I am proud to day that today I have fought my way out of this biased system to (I hope) never return. I completely agree with helping people who will help themselves, but if no effort is made to better oneself while soaking up tax money of hard working people, then cut the people who mooch from our tax dollars please.
why should the government bail people out of their hard times?
If your not sure you can pay for kids over the long term, dont have them.
If you're addicted to drugs its cuz u chose to try them.
If your job sucks its either cuz you slacked it in school or ur lazy.
People should be responsible for their own decisions and get themselves out of their self created problems. cant be afraid of some double shifts.
This is a very good article. Many people forget that it is also disabled people and their children who depend on the welfare system. The system is set up to not allow you to save and be able to become self-sufficient. In January, my disability payment went up by $10. My food stamps went down $20. WTF??? I would like to buy land in order to grow my own food, and extra to sell. I would love to save up and start a business my small town needs. In my situation, for every dollar I earn working I lose $3. in benefits, and this doesn't count the new daycare costs I would incur. I cannot save a penny. I sure don't understand how people are able to scam the system so much.
You make some good points. I haven't looked into the problem of cheating, but I think it's key. It's a shame that some "bad apples" have to ruin a safety net for those who are truly needy.