What Do You Think You'd Change?

[debilorrah]

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Hopefully it can be improved. In CA, you now have to pay back all the benefits you receive and your limit on welfare is 5 years. Which still does not address putting uneducated people back into the non-existent work force.

Since when do they have to pay it back?

If you're not educated enough to even get a fast-food job, how are they expected to pay it back?

I dunno, my sister was on it for 20-some-odd years and has never been requested to pay it back. I know people whose kids had to go on it within the last five years for a couple of years (my friend's daughter was on it but she was going to school, and as soon as she graduated, she got a job and got off of it)... she graduated about 18 months ago and has never heard of it having to be paid back.

When did they start that out here, Debi?

I believe it was January 1, 2009 when they introduced the welfare to work program. However, they failed to address TRAINING someone how to go from welfare to work. Of course this does not apply to those who could care less and will obtain a new name to get new benefits....

As soon as someone with the same social security number is reported as having income in the state of CA, their wages are attached. I believe it is a double edged sword there. Teach them how to work, give em a job and then take their money. I don't know. I have very differing opinions. I am not sure attaching wages is effective.

 

[EmtheFishLady]

A lot of my neighbor's here are on welfare. I've offered ALL of them jobs. I've never gotten any of them to show up.

 

[FruitChicken]

I wish my dad would stop getting denied disability. He is terminally ill, and just cheated death a mere few weeks ago. We have no idea how to pay the medical bills, keep the debt-collectors off his back, and how I will be able to afford to care for him as his health worsens. His medication is over $200 a month and I can't afford to get him to a specialist. I know people whose spouses earn over $100k a year and still get a cushy disability check even though they've barely worked a day in their life. He paid into social security for over 35 years until he became sick. The system isn't fair and it is corrupt

 

[arianna]

We NEED to put tariffs on Chinese imports!!! That's the only thing that will save the small business. We need more “MADE IN USA” products.

 

[redhen]

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[PaulaSB12]

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If I go to a restaurant and pay good money for food I expect it to be freshly prepared on the premises not a pre made boil in the bag job and that is what he has been caught out selling

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...-of-using-ready-meals-in-his-restaurants.html

 

[Iowa Roo Mom]

I would make healthcare about the patients again as opposed to the almighty dollar. Patient care in for-profit hospitals is something to be desired, and even if the patients aren't suffering, the staff most certianly is!

 

[KristyHall]

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We already have death taxes and here in Alabama we have taxes on food, and you're taxed on having kids if you have them in a hospital

 

[KristyHall]

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Come visit my neighbors awhile. You wouldn't think there were too many misconceptions then.

I only say it because I know it to be true. People abuse the system WAY TOO OFTEN.

I have the same contempt for the state spending $15 on a box of pencils. Our taxes dollars pay for just about everything. And it is all kinds of taxes: snack taxes, gas taxes, cigarette taxes, booze taxes, etc.

I find myself having a hard time feeling contempt for the people IN the system and not contempt for the people that allow it. After all, they are not doing anything to assist these people become functional, productive people either.

When my sister, a hard working RN, went into congestive heart failure, and lost her home because she became too sick to work, and thus lost her insurance and couldn't get treatment, she temporarily went on welfare and food stamps, and she and her kids even lived in my living room for a while. Food stamps only lasted three months for her, which was standard, also despite being sick she has to go through job training programs, as a requirement for being on assistance. She is no longer on welfare but is finally on Medicaid (it was difficult getting approved for it, she had to loose everything to even get the tiniest bit of help) while they try to figure out what on earth caused a healthy young mother to suddenly go into heart failure and nearly die, even then we still had to pay a lot for her gas, a lot of her doctors appointments, we still buy her groceries, and she is still going through the wringer, trying to get treatment, because like the rest of the family, she hates being idle. Aid is hard to get on, and near impossible to live on, so I find this whole steak and shrimp claim and welfare queen stories highly improbable, i know and have met too many people who have had to go on aid one time or another who has lost everything or almost everything and could hardly live on what was given.

 

[Royd]

Here's one which annoys me. Speed zones, which are maintained, regardless of the day, time of day or season....Such as the 35 mph zone, for 1 mile, through a school zone....After school lets out, on weekends, holidays and summer vacation, they should be allowed to revert to 45 or 55 mph.