Welfare Misconceptions and Reform

Some people just do not want to pay taxes. It is estimated that less than 2 percent of people on welfare cheat the system. Why? That is because they actually monitor poor people. Besides poor people can't afford by buy anyone off. What this country needs to worry about is corporate welfare. It has already hit the 100 billion mark for the the fiscal year of 2012. That's 50 percent higher than what they offer on social programs for the poor. Now before the right jumps on Obama for that too. We all knew this was going on long before he ever took office. Now I am sure our government officials have people in place to monitor that system too. The problem is they have other rich people doing the monitoring just like they have Bank officials monitoring Wall Street. So you tell me where the fraud lies? Its hard to keep a system from being corrupt when you have all these people buying one another off. Then corruption breeds more corruption. Its like a virus that way. What gets me is people really don't think the system is rigged? Why don't people take walk or drive though a bad neighborhood of a major city. You tell me the system isn't rigged. Know one likes to, because they are to scared or just don't like to face reality.

I've had the misfortune to have had to rely on unemployment benefit in the past, and now mainly on the Age pension, which is somewhat higher than the unemployment. This is in Australia, where the benefits are bigger and the COL lower than in the States, and believe me sister, it ain't easy. Some people cheat the system, no doubt. But people who want to stop welfare because of a few cheats should perhaps consider how many respectable businessmen and politicians steal, cheat, and avoid taxes, and maybe spend their energies where it will actually do some good, stopping the rich cheats. Lash

I believe welfare should be a temporary assistance program, not a lifelong support system.

The idea of welfare is to help those who by virtue of their advanced age or physical impairments are incapable of working. The problem with today's welfare recipients is that too many of them have been brought up to believe that they are owed money from the government by virtue of their poverty whether they're able bodied or not. I think one of the thinks that irks some of us regarding welfare recipients is that every child of welfare parents has the opportunity to go to school to better their prospects. However, too many of them would rather live off the dole than improve their situation. The work ethics that made this country great are being phased out of our attitude.

It is our business. The taxpayers are the ones paying for it if it's bought with food stamps.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children. ~Dietrich Bonhoeffer The greatness of America is in how it treats its weakest members: the elderly, the infirm, the handicapped, the underprivileged, the unborn. ~Bill Federer I am NOT AGAINST HELPING THOSE WHO NEED HELP. But we've been duped, misled and taken for a ride when it comes to welfare. http://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/cloward-piven-strategy-bring-down-capitalism-by-flooding-the-welfare-system/ This is the opening paragraph of the Nation (published by the CPUSA) article: How can the poor be organized to press for relief from poverty? How can a broad-based movement be developed and the current disarray of activist forces be halted? These questions confront, and confound, activists today. It is our purpose to advance a strategy which affords the basis for a convergence of civil rights organizations, militant anti-poverty groups and the poor. If this strategy were implemented, a political crisis would result that could lead to legislation for a guaranteed annual income and thus an end to poverty. The Coward Pivens strategy of forcing political change through orchestrated crisis. The "Cloward-Piven Strategy" seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse. In their 1966 article, Cloward and Piven charged that the ruling classes used welfare to weaken the poor; that by providing a social safety net, the rich doused the fires of rebellion. Poor people can advance only when “the rest of society is afraid of them,” Cloward told The New York Times on September 27, 1970. Rather than placating the poor with government hand-outs, wrote Cloward and Piven, activists should work to sabotage and destroy the welfare system; the collapse of the welfare state would ignite a political and financial crisis that would rock the nation; poor people would rise in revolt; only then would “the rest of society” accept their demands. The key to sparking this rebellion would be to expose the inadequacy of the welfare state. Cloward-Piven’s early promoters cited radical organizer Saul Alinsky as their inspiration. “Make the enemy live up to their (sic) own book of rules,” Alinsky wrote in his 1972 book Rules for Radicals. When pressed to honor every word of every law and statute, every Judaeo-Christian moral tenet, and every implicit promise of the liberal social contract, human agencies inevitably fall short. The system’s failure to “live up” to its rule book can then be used to discredit it altogether, and to replace the capitalist “rule book” with a socialist one. Welfare is now being used to do this very thing, bring down capitalism and usher in socialism. We all know true charity is the responsibility of the individual. And that by passing off the responsibility of caring for the poor onto the government via our taxes we have neglected our OWN responsibility to the poor, and the needy. It is NOT the job of the federal government to take care of the daily needs of any of us. It is the responsibility of the individual who sees his brother in need to meet that need. Since the individual has neglected that, the government steps in. And the individual ultimately pays the price for his neglect of the poor. HOW? Because the government is by nature an enforcer of laws, not a compassionate individual, and it will grow in power as it takes from one class to give to another. We had Welfare Reform. People were required to go to school or get a job. Obama has done away with that due to the economic crisis. We now have almost half of the American people on some sort of government assisstance. What happens to the system in this state of affairs? Government does indeed, not have a money tree planted in the Rose Garden, the MONEY for social welfare programs comes from taxes paid by the individual. And if LESS and LESS taxes are collected because more and more are on welfare, the system crashes. And we are about to see that happen in front of our very eyes. And NO ONE WILL GET THE HELP THEY NEED. It isn't so much about people on welfare having a bunch of stuff that working people cannot afford, it is about the mind set that government OWES us. And that has been pounded into the mind of America for the last two generations. People se a problem and their first thought is government ought to do something! The ONLY thing government owes us is to uphold the Constitution of the United States of America. Why else the oath of office for any government official? We have been duped. The Cloward Pivens Stragey proves it. It has been implemented and it has brought us to our knees.