What are ways to solve the Welfare problems in the U.S.?

Question

What are ways to solve the Welfare problems in the U.S.?

Answer 1

Shipping all illegal immigrants out of this country would help as it would open more jobs for our welfare recipients to apply for.

Answer 2

make a new deal situation that would provide work for people on welfare and the other guy has a good idea too it would give us job in the free market system ope for our sons and daughter to apply for

Answer 3

The problem is that the ruling class don`t want them solved. & with that it`s not possible. They just want to suck all money they can out of everything.

Answer 4

Eliminate the most costly welfare programs:

1. No longer give corporations special tax deductions, tax shelters, low-cost government loans, government bail-outs, 'entertainment' deductions, tax abatements, and the hundreds of billions in other government give-aways that are won for corporations by lobbyists, special interest groups and wealthy elitists;

2. Stop allowing mortgage interest deductions for homeowners, courtesy of the U.S. government;

3. Return Social Security to the insurance program as was originally intended instead of handing out Social Security checks to anyone over 62, whether they need the money or not;

4. Outlaw low-cost government education loans for wealthy families, who often get their kids through college and then don't bother to repay the loans, or file bankruptcy to avoid repaying the loans;

5. Stop government 'assistance' programs so that profitable corporations like McDonald's can 'market' their businesses in other countries;

6. End the tax incentives offered to a handful of wealthy elitists, industrialists, oil barons and power brokers who only want to become wealthier and more powerful;

7. Stop frittering away borrowed money to initiate unconstitutional, illegal, immoral 'wars' against other nations that in no way threatened, provoked or attacked the United States (which has cost American taxpayers $9.7 TRILLION and killed 675,000 Iraqis and [many, many] more than 4,400 U.S. soldiers).

If the hundreds of billions of dollars squandered on these welfare programs were returned to the U.S. Treasury, there would be a surplus, and plenty of money to rebuild infrastructures as well as help those in this country who are sick, poor, underprivileged, elderly, disadvantaged, under-educated, unemployed, disabled, homeless and hungry.     -RKO-  09/01/08

Answer 5

Welfare is a needed program. Sometimes people get down on their luck or simply cannot take care of themselves because of some kind of a physical or mental problem. Of course there are always those who simply abuse the system.

My proposal would be that 1) after one year on welfare the recipient would be brought in for a physical, mental evaluation and testing to determine ability and skills.  2) They would be sorted into groups, Those that need treatment, for example anti-depressants, those that need job training and marketable skills,  those that simply need counseling and those that are deemed unable to care for themselves. 3) Treatment and training programs or able persons would be followed up by at least monthly reviews. 4) Recipients  would be placed in an employment or jobs program which required they provide evidence of job searches on a monthly basis for not less than one year.  Recipients were determined not to be making bona-fide attempts at finding employment would be disqualified from the welfare program.  

Answer 6

Create more jobs... Obama's plan for the economy will help the poor get jobs and an education. There will be less bums nagging me on the street