Does giving welfare money to unemployed people encourage them not to get a job and work an honest life.?

Question

Does giving welfare money to unemployed people encourage them not to get a job and work an honest life.?

Answer 1

That's exactly what it does

Answer 2

Amen it sure do'ssss

Lots of them in the South.

Answer 3

Good observation.

It's been that way since the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

It also helped to destroy the black family concept and helped to sky rocket the instance of illegitimate children.

Much of today's problems are remnants of that failed liberal policy.

Answer 4

Welfare money and food stamps are fine for the person temporarily unemployed. I am annoyed when we have generations of people on welfare that feel they are entitled to more and more at the expense of the hard working taxpayers.

Answer 5

No because welfare is only enough to barely scrape by and their is no pride in not working and just getting uncle sams money

Answer 6

Sometimes it's helps pay the bills. If they live with Mom and Dad it's a waste.

Answer 7

Yes.  Any such program should be for a limited period of time and for situations where someone is temporarily unemployed.

A worse situation is the welfare programs which can go on for generations. Another similar program is the Earned Income tax credit.

Answer 8

Unemployed people were once employed.

They get unemployment insurance, something they, and their companies pay into.  They are entitled to it.

If they are still unemployed when it runs out, they may apply for welfare.

To do this they must have exhausted their funds and accounts, and have minimal assets, like a car worth no more than $1500.

In some areas of the country, the jobs leave, and the housing market goes, and the people left have little choice, they can't sell their homes because no one will buy it with no industry to provide work.

For those people welfare is a needed step.  People who have been employed, some of them for twenty or thirty years, are not encouraged to stay home, they are ashamed and humiliated that they reach that point.  Their honest life has been wrecked.

I've seen that happen, what I haven't seen is the welfare queen, she seems to have disappeared everywhere but in hoary stories told by Republicans who are unaware of the changes wrought thirteen years ago.