Welfare, be it for farmers, corporations or the poor...why have it?

Question

Welfare, be it for farmers, corporations or the poor...why have it?

Answer 1

I can see having an emergency fund for real emergencies, like losing your money and not being able to feed the kids that week, but I don't approve of welfare in general, it's an easy way to not work for a lot of people.

Money for people who *can't* work is allocated differently. No one begrudges a learning disabled person who is incapable of working, being given enough money to live on, but I hate to see lazy fat couples with 10 kids claiming they can't work, and taking my money off me. It's just not fair, if I can get up and go to work, so can they. Too many people are sitting around claiming, when they should get up and go to work.

Answer 2

no reason/

Answer 3

Because it keeps people, especially children off the streets, also prevents crimes of "necessity" and it creates lots of job opportunities for social workers, etc.  It also gives many people a second chance to become somebody and it makes dead beat dads pay for the children they neglected and stranded.