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Welfare

How should welfare be handled?


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What are your opinions on welfare management? Several mainstream options of handling welfare are in the poll.
 
I'm not sure TBH, I do believe that Welfare should be tied to some kind of work program/education program in order to improve the lives of the people on welfare so that they can eventually get out of the program.
 
It depends upon the kind of country. In capitalism, it should be left to the states(still leaving the fed some power to step in, if need be), but when the main social structure is communes, this kind of assistance should be something the community does inherently.
 
What are your opinions on welfare management? Several mainstream options of handling welfare are in the poll.

I think that all people should have government subsidized access to food, housing, education, transportation, and medical care regardless of how much income they personally earn.

EDIT: This is as long as they stay employed or are self-employed.

And this will be separate from unemployment insurance which can be used when they are not currently employed, and it will be paid into individual accounts paid into with every paycheck that they can withdraw from only when not currently employed.
 
There should be federal standards to make sure tha it isn't effectively done away with, but it should be mainly left up to the states. That's how it will run the most efficiently
 
What are your opinions on welfare management? Several mainstream options of handling welfare are in the poll.
Feds and states. There should be certain standards set by the federal government and then states can choose the specific policies according to their population within those standards.
 
I don't see why the federal government is involved at all.
 
What are your opinions on welfare management? Several mainstream options of handling welfare are in the poll.

Just curious, but please list all government programs which YOU define as welfare or welfare programs.
 
I don't see why the federal government is involved at all.

To ensure that the system runs smoothly. I could easily see a state being biased in how the welfare is distributed, especially if powers went down to local. The area that I live in is still quite racist and it would be quite feasible for our local government to find a way to strip others of welfare.
 
When we're discussing "welfare", just what does that entail? I think most of us would include TANF, and perhaps subsidized housing. Food stamps could be seen as both welfare and agricultural subsidy. Social Security? Is that welfare? Medicare? Medicaid? What is welfare, anyway?
 
When we're discussing "welfare", just what does that entail? I think most of us would include TANF, and perhaps subsidized housing. Food stamps could be seen as both welfare and agricultural subsidy. Social Security? Is that welfare? Medicare? Medicaid? What is welfare, anyway?

All of it. If it's used to increase the general welfare of it's users, then it's welfare
 
I voted states, but prefer even more localized community based management, with ties to a nationwide computer based record of who is receiving what.....to keep out the scammers.
And I would pay rewards to those who turn in the scammers.....
 
So, that would include tax breaks, subsidies, government funded projects, the whole nine yards. Personally, I'd end most of it.

Yessir. I would end personal tax breaks, most subsidies, and pointless government projects. Welfare needs reform, all of it
 
I would have to agree if you apply it to all Disability. Disable veterans have clearly earned their disability payments, it is not welfare, but something earned.

But it is still welfare. I agree that it is well earned and should be of little to no penalty of the vet, but it is still welfare. I would more than likely leave disabilitily for vets untouched or maybe even add money into it. Our vets are not given the respect that they deserve
 
I'm not sure TBH, I do believe that Welfare should be tied to some kind of work program/education program in order to improve the lives of the people on welfare so that they can eventually get out of the program.

I feel the same. Who runs the program? That doesn't matter to me so long as the program is run to help and not coddle.
 
I feel the same. Who runs the program? That doesn't matter to me so long as the program is run to help and not coddle.

The program would run better if handed to the states with federal regulations IMO. The need and use will be different from state to state so blanketing the entire system wouldn't do much good and would ultimately be wasteful/inefficient
 
The program would run better if handed to the states with federal regulations IMO. The need and use will be different from state to state so blanketing the entire system wouldn't do much good and would ultimately be wasteful/inefficient

Society at this point, with mass culture is pretty homogeneous. I am not sure this would really accomplish anything.

But again, it doesn't matter to me.
 
Just curious, but please list all government programs which YOU define as welfare or welfare programs.

From my point of view, the day you receive one cent more from the government than you have put in, is the day when one goes from being an asset to a liability.
 
Helping those that are down should be handled by families, churches, neighbors and communities. That's the right way.
 
Helping those that are down should be handled by families, churches, neighbors and communities. That's the right way.

In a perfect world...

But even churches have a hard time getting people in the doors these days. Neighbors and communities are, too often, are not neighborly and communal. It's the "me" generation.
 
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