gwailo247 said:
raswan said:
Everyone knows this. It's not news. You don't like it, I don't like it. But that doesn't mean you axe all the good that could (and will, even if it's a trickle) come out of it. In a perfect world, it wouldn't need to exist, but let's be practical. There's a lot of other stuff your tax money gets wasted on that see far fewer practical rewards and benefits.
Maybe so, but if you talk to enough social workers, parole officers, and other people who deal with that segment of society, you'll probably find most of their sentiments echo Tom's. Yes, there are some people who desperately want to escape that situation, but odds are most aren't.
So you're on welfare, you get section 8 housing, and Medicare. You're going to give all that up to work 2 jobs, pay rent and lose your medicare? I'm guessing that most welfare recipients would not really be able to get work and enough of it, with enough benefits in order to make them working a better financial deal than being on gov't assistance.
We're all (or most of us anyway) approaching this situation from the perspective on not being raised on welfare from birth. If you take a second, third, fourth generation that is raised on welfare, to them this is normal. Throwing money at the problem does not do anything if you don't change the people's mentality.