"Welfare Day".............?

Question

Do you find this to be a degrading statement or justified one?

Answer 1

I think that people are confusing the Social Security Check day with welfare.  Welfare recipients receive their benefits on different dates based on their social security numbers.  So there is no "one day" for welfare.  Now anyone receiving their social security check will all get them on the same day.  (One thing you can say the government does right).  

Of course any negativity towards welfare is often judgemental and based on a lot of wrong information.  Many people don't want to recognize that it is mainly children and senior citizens receiving any form of governmental assistance (from SSI or welfare).  If people were made aware that many old people and children would starve and die without their taxpaying money helping, the urge to cut programs would cease.  Contrary to popular belief, 98% of people receiving government assistance are truly needing of that help.  

So I found the statement to be degrading because it is based on ignorance.

Answer 2

Only if it's a short legit need, while moving forward,  and appreciated.  No, I do not believe that there is never any emergency need.  

However, what some people are doing on welfare or disability is simply getting on it and staying on it because they are being manipulated to by a codependent candy system and seeking it at the same time.  People that believe that isn't happening do not have any respect for where their tax money is going either and might comply to pay into anything without question.   While many are collecting welfare and disability and the need is advertised as "despiration" there are also luxurious parties being thrown and political agendas being paid for with this labeled- as- need money as well.    

I'm a homemaker so when my husband cashes his check we are both paying and responsible for taxes jointly just as our jointly working on home, our relationship, family, etc.  I do not appreciate seeing people exploit the teamwork we stand for or the evidence appearing that my neighbors and I are getting ripped off to fill the pockets of the people who exploit it.

Answer 3

Good thing Social Security comes on the 3rd.  Those Grey Panthers would be out to get you!

Answer 4

Neither, but rather incorrect.  What's welfare day - what's wrong with equality?

Answer 5

Like many, this one has become a 'bad' word due to degrading media portrayal.  If I see a mother with young children or a mentally handicapped person enjoying 'Welfare Day' it gives me satisfaction to know that my taxes are being properly used...taking care of the welfare of those who really need it.  However, it infuriates me when I see able bodied young people being given welfare.  Then it is degrading because I view that person as a parasite on society.

Answer 6

Whatever you call it, it's a label.  Labels stigmatize and stereotype, but humans will label things.  The fact is that many stores are much busier on the 1rst and the 15th.  It's not just welfare though,  Many jobs pay on these days as well.  What makes a statement degrading is the context, not the words.