What Do You Think You'd Change?

[KristyHall]

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May you never be unlucky enough to ever need assistance.
Because you believe others are abusing it, so you wish to remove a safety net in place to help others on their feet, and I know far more who it has gotten on their feet than those who abuse it

 

[redhen]

I'm all for a welfare system..many folks do need it. BUT with that welfare fund..you also get drug tested a LOT...
If you fail a test..you lose your benefits.

 

[EmtheFishLady]

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May you never be unlucky enough to ever need assistance.
Because you believe others are abusing it, so you wish to remove a safety net in place to help others on their feet, and I know far more who it has gotten on their feet than those who abuse it

I wish I'd meet some. Trust me, it's not something I WANT to believe. It's something that's paraded in front of me on a daily basis, and I know it to be fact. 90% of the people around here on on welfare. 100% of those people don't work. They don't WANT to work. I have offered them jobs, offered them cash to help me out from time to time, so their benefits wouldn't even go down. But, they can't get out from in front of their BIG SCREEN TV's, or their BRAND NEW computers. I KNOW there are people out there who actually NEED the help and NEED to get on their feet. That's fine with me. I don't mind helping them AT ALL. I have in the past. I do not mind one single bit helping someone get on their feet. Not in the least. It's the people who take advantage of it that make the entire system useless. They need to do away with it and put something better in place. You shouldn't be able to buy red bull and junk food on food stamps. Period. You're not going to convince me they need red bull for anything. They shouldn't be able to be on it for YEARS AND YEARS. And they SHOULD NOT be able to have MORE children that they cannot support.


And as far as communities never helping one another, I know for a fact that some still do and always will. I maintain an aquarium for an elderly woman in a wheelchair for free. I also bring her fish for free. And I've done this for 5 years. I also cook HUGE dinners. Far much more than my husband, daughter and I can eat alone. We have an open door policy, and it's well known that anyone who is hungry can come and eat with us. That is often reciprocated in other ways as well. Communities do help others out. And that's always been prevalent in the South.

 

[EmtheFishLady]

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Yes, and EVERYONE in the household needs to be there and be tested every month at random intervals. I know a few who actually use peoples social security numbers who've never lived with them just to increase their benefits.

 

[redhen]

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Yes, and EVERYONE in the household needs to be there and be tested every month at random intervals. I know a few who actually use peoples social security numbers who've never lived with them just to increase their benefits.

Yep...

 

[Q9]

#1 - Stick to the Constitution.
#2 - Elimination (complete and total) of the welfare state.
#3 - Elimination of public schools, OR have the curriculum controlled solely by the local school board, with no state or federal involvement, including funding.
#4 - Police officers are entrusted with a LOT of power. There should be stricter punishments for a criminal officer, rather than letting them off easy, and sometimes even punishing the victim. Both of these happen a LOT today.
#5 - Complete privatization of everything that could within reason be privatized, which is basically everything except courts, police, and national defense.

 

[Royd]

Traffic engineers should have to spend years, driving the streets, before they are allowed to work on street design....They should be sent to Dunkin Donuts, with a truck and trailer, and try to manuever, with those stupid, directional entrance islands, which only allow you to enter a parking lot, from the side of the street, the business is on.....And those center islands, which force you to drive an extra 1/4 mile, just to make a u-turn, to go in the other direction.

 

[EmtheFishLady]

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[Moabite]

I don't know why there isn't an office I can walk into and get a day labor job for minimum wage (or WORKFARE

) serving my community. With all the trash in along the creek, and road, and city workers making $25/hr - three to a shovel getting full benefits and retirement. Sounds a little socialist, but it could give some a start to a better future. The 'Givement could use a few more people answering phones too and a daycare for parents to go to work. How can a single working parent afford daycare? They can't unless they live with there parents.

Seems that there is plenty to be done but plenty of people out of work.

 

[EmtheFishLady]

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I can't think of the name, but here we have a system that pays a daycare to keep their kids. They don't pay a cent. As long as they work. I like that. I think it's a good program. We also have what's called HUD housing. Also a good program, but could use a bit of reform there as well. Gives them a place to live rent free.