who believes welfare should be baned in the us.

there is a limit on how long someone can recieve the funds. Around here where i'm at it's 2 years.

I don't think welfare should be banned but revampted. It need to change its rules. People need to get off welfare at some point. We sink billions of dollars into welfare at least 25% of the people on it should not be. The government should help families get on their feet but not support them for the rest of their lives. I have worked most of my life and when things were real bad the government would not help me. I don't exactly know what it takes to get help from the government but I have never been able to get help not even to get my kid through college. Yet the lady up the street has five kids and they go to private school and she is receiving assistance. You tell me if the system is not broken.

This is a huge topic.. people with a disability can't live another way. Some people who get unemployment benefits are just lazy and don't want to work. There are jobs to be had out there but people think the government owes them a living.

I don't think is should be banned but it should only be for women who are pregnant and for the diabled.Alot of these people who know the system take advantage and it's not right.

Yes I do believe that there are people who need it I also believe that there are tons of people who are on it who don't need it. I have known people who needed it badly and had a very hard time getting it- one example being my 82 yr old great aunt-with a very bad back (several operations for slipped disc), she lived with my grandmother and when my grandmother passed she had no where to go - so my mom took her for welfare and food stamps, and they kept asking her are you sure you can't get a job??? The woman is 82 years old - but yet someone young who can work and is just too lazy will get it no problem.

There IS a limit. Under the new welfare system, especially TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families), you are only allowed benefits for 2 years out of your lifetime. And if you don't make the number of required job contacts in a month, your benefits are reduced. And if you don't accept a job, ANY job, your benefits are reduced. And if you don't show up for work, your benefits are reduced. And if you don't do every little tiny thing that the system is making you do, you get screwed. The system is LEGITIMATE. It needs reformation, but that's only to help that those who need it the worst. Read the following books : "Flat Broke with Children," "The Working Poor," for example. They'll show you the need and the facts. If you think it should be banned, try NEEDING it. It'll change your opinion.

I don't think welfare should be banned, but I think there should be stricter guidelines and rules for those who are on welfare and food stamps. I mean there are some families who are simply in need of govermental help, so we should help them, just we need to make sure it goes to people who really need the help.

I'm sure, and yes, know for a fact that there are people who desperately need welfare to be able to survive but I also know that the majority of people on welfare, not only in the US but anywhere in the world, don't really need it. There are so many 2nd, 3rd and even 4th generations that don't know anything else. They think they are entitled to it and are raised to belive that the suckers who have money should pay for them. It's sad but unfortunately, true.

I believe there ought to be limit on just how long government should assist the poor via handing down things. Any good government welfare program should come along with mandatory skills empowerment programs! Unless, of course, a government intended all along to use the program to control its people. Secondly, I believe that those who get into the welfare program and continue to have chldren with irresponsible men should automatically be banned from such programs. It is the responsibility of parents to take care of their children and not government's or other hardworking folks!

I believe some really need it. I do believe you should be a legal resident of the USA and it should not be given to support over the 2.5 (avg) children we're suppose to be having meaning no more then 3 children. I do believe it should be HARDER to get then just dropping babies. There's proof out there that there are some who really do need it. But it should not be someones SOLE support. I do think there should be a REASONABLE time limit as to how much time someone can have the extra support. However, I have real issues with that too Simply because it's hard to get a good paying job that will support that a parent and their children! I'm a middle aged woman. I pay over 13 thousand dollars in taxes a year, I BARELY GET BY. I'm single(tax wise until next year) But I can't afford health insurance and cant afford to have my own children at this point simply because my $$$$ is paying for MARIA AND JUAN'S 10 KIDS! Now tell me how is it fair that 2 illegal aliens can come in drop 10 kids inside the US boarder, and LEGALLY CLAIM SUPPORT FOR THEIR KIDS?????? GAHHHHHHH This is one subject that always INFLAMES ME! Good luck winning that battle. Government SUX!

Yes, I think something has got to change. There are so many BS claims for it, people need to be cut off. The ones who truly need it are probably not getting it anyway. There are people who have babies and there husband, boyfriend leaves, so what. You made a choice to have a baby now provide for it. I stay at home and if something happened to my husband I would be screwed. I would have to sale the house and go get a JOB. That's what you do. The problem is we enable people to make bad choices because we provide an out. I'm sick of it:)

It is going to be difficult to ban the welfare system until we have a working, functional child support system at hand. The people who would get hit the most are the kids.

No, it should not be baned. Have u ever experience a country without welfare? I did. it is bad, and it sadden me to see many people suffer so bad. definetely shouldnt be baned

I think that welfare has been taken to far! Only because those that dont really need it, get on it. And those that do need it cant apply because most positions are filled. Take for example one of my aunts has went blind and therefore she cant fend for herself and her kids, so what she does is get on welfare or now a days known a social security? Would you say that my aunt doesnt need it? Be Honest......

I think welfare is needed. Yes, people abuse the system. Yes, able bodied people with options opt for welfare rather than getting a job. But there are people who need it. If I weren't lucky enough to have my folks, I'd need it. I'm severely disabled and can't work. I broke my back and it never healed properly and never will. I've tried to work, but I'm not physically capable of doing much at all. I write freelance and my folks provide me with a place to live, so I'm lucky. But plenty of people aren't. I think there should be stricter regulation of welfare funds, though, to weed out those who are taking advantage of the system.