The idea that we live in a society that takes care of our poor and less fortunate while on the surface makes us proud and feel save; it is in fact a huge hinder on our society.

1: Welfare helps you keep your hand out.

If I were to give you $600 a month with no strings attached (ok, make a resume and “hand” it out). And then I said to you “if you go back to school to further yourself not only will I not give you money to attend I will also take your $600 away. Also, if you acquire a job (even part time) your $600 is now gone.”

What would you do?

Quick Math: $600 / 60 hours a month (part time) = $10 /hr.
Quick Math: 1 year of college (avg) $2500.

2: The “unmotivated and live on little to nothing” population:

There are a lot of people out there that don’t mind hand outs and since we as a society are always made to feel guilty about having anything we are more than happy to “give to the needy.”
If you are willing to get by on old furniture, lack of nutritious food, Inn of the Good Shepherd hand outs, bus passes, tube television and basic cable then welfare is the prefect job for you.

3: Immigrants are high rollers:

Please keep in mind I am not generalizing here. I am an immigrant myself.
Go to google and type “percentage of immigrants on welfare.” The results are staggering.

The welfare system is like a gold mind for someone who is from a third world country.
It’s tragic that living conditions are dire in their part of the world however the dream of moving to North America and living on the system is very appealing when you sit around hundreds of thousands of people that cant even afford to take a decent shower, crap, sanitize.

These are just few of many thoughts on why I don’t like the welfare system.
Do I agree that there should be something put in place to safe guard being homeless and having a roof over your head; of course I do. I just don’t think the answer is throwing $600 a month at a person down on their luck is the answer.

I would love to have a debate about how to approach it. I am not saying that all people on welfare are lazy. What I am saying is that once you receive welfare there isn’t much incentive to get off it and once you get used to receiving a rationed amount, living off the system becomes more appeasable and affordable.

What frustrates me about issues regarding the system are people who have a nice cushy job utter things like “why cant they just get a job?” Oh I wish it were just that easy.
I think a huge assistance to helping the poor is for people that aren’t to develop compassion. Far too often you find people with money telling those without money they are useless.

This isn’t helping anyone. Middle class people need to be educated more on the matter.