Why do some people put down people who recieve welfare?

I've always wanted to ask this question to people i ued to work at a welfare agencey in nyc and some of those people are not the lazy slobs that people make them out to be some of them have very low educational skills due to family situations or they have just lost their jobs, some of the women who aplly do because they them selves have just gotten out of a bad situation eg;domestic violence and so on so i really dont get the jist of the negative comments that are made about these people all there budgets are so below the poverty level it is shameful and this so called wefare reform is ajoke it does not really help when you bar a person from getting an education to push a broom for 1.75 an hour I thought that education was the key to success so i was fired from job there because i encouraged some of the clients to get an education and fight for whats right I sometimes could not sleep at night knowing that what this agency does is not right please keep negative comments to a minimum

the welfare to work program to me has been a way for big corporations to get rid of unionized workers and replace them with low skilled workers who they pay very little or nothing at all and anyone out there who has worked for any of these agencies know that

I've not seen a post that puts down welfare in general.

I've seen posts suggesting drug tests for people on welfare, posts that complain about welfare recipients continuing to have children while drawing benefits, or posts that address abuse of welfare.

the people that use it better themselves are not the ones that people get upset over..it is the people that live permintely on welfare while having more and more kids and using drugs..i have had to be on benefits before and i don't feel i am scum for it but i didnt live on the system either and i have seen enough people that do use it wrong

My mom always told me that if I cant say anything nice, I shouldnt say anything at all. So I'm not going to say anything about the question, its grammar, my belief of the answer, or my impression of you. Have a nice day.

The more I thought about it, the more I wanted to post an actual comment.

Welfare is a great system, in theory. However, in reality it is as commonly abused as people going 5 mph over the speed limit. I teach in an inner city that has the states highest unemployment rate. I truly like that there is government assistance for those that need it. However, I think drastic reforms need to be made to the current system. There should be drug tests, spot inspections, proof of efforts of looking for work, time limits for how long you receive benefits, a limit to the number of children you can receive money for while on the system (so that people do not continue to reproduce when they cannot afford to live on their own now), and my biggest (and most controvertial) would be in regards to education.

I believe that people should be required to have a high school diploma or GED before being allowed to get services. Also, anyone on government aid that have children should not get aid unless their children are attending school. Study after study shows that education is a main key to success. Those that dont have a high school diploma make thousands less a year than those with them. Also, the unemployment rate and welfare rates are significantly higher. If you cant get your kids to stay in school, then you shouldnt get any money. I believe that if we enforce this system the high school graduation rate will approach 100%. The people on welfare will make their kids go to school so that they can get the $. This next generation is more likely to be successful and stay off of welfare. The system would help stop generation after generation of welfare in the same family. The kids that want nothing more than to live off the system when they are old enough will stay in school until they graduate so that they can get $. Maybe some of them will be reached and actually become productive members of society.

In short, I think that we serious changes need to be made to the system. At present, the system is too easy to abuse. It should be for those that really need it, not those too lazy to work.

People like to toot their own horn,but you don't hear much from them when they are reduced to living on little or nothing.Those kinds of people should offer to help rather than hinder their fellow man

Personally, I do not make jokes about people on welfare. I believe, however, that the criteria for allowing people to be on welfare needs to be tightened and narrowed. I have seen a lot of people abusing welfare in my life. I think welfare should be there for the people who really do, honestly, need the money. There are many instances where people need the money, but there are many instances where people don't need it either. We need to get it to those who really need it and make sure those who don't need it don't get it.

Instead of making more money available though for welfare, maybe the government could put that money towards helping small business's create more jobs.

well with a 40% fraud rate in the system.i find this alone reason enough to complain when we are paying for it.nobody complains about the truly needy.the problem is the fraud rate people use when applying for benefits and unreported income.face it,the truth is most are generational welfare. and there are a high number who can work and don't.

It seems to me that the welfare agencies should care more than what they do, and encourage people to get a higher education but in a sense if they did that then there would be no need for them {welfare agencies} to get the money from the state, and just face it a lot of agencies just doesn't seem to care

I have no problem w/ someone who being on welfare while they are looking for a job. I do have a problem w/ people who sit on their fat lazy asses smoking dope and popping out babies collecting it.

I'm glad you asked or wrote about people living in poverty and TRYING to receive welfare. I am taking a really awesome class right now called Multicultural: Exploring our Views. It focuses a lot on people living in poverty and what they go through, the stereotypes, etc. So to answer your question about why people put down people who receive welfare. There are lots of reasons for it. One is the media and people believing the common myths about poverty. Here are some of the myths. Myth #1: Poverty is solely a minority issue. It is common for people to think poverty is associated with racism. Research studies on poverty often ignore the White people. Myth #2: Government assistance is adequate to the extent that it encourages independance. WRONG! People in poverty in the U.S. cannot get out of poverty by relying on government assistance. We in America have high child poverty rates because we choose to, not because we cannot do anything about it. Nationally, the average welfare check for one parent and two children in 2005 was $478 per month. Twenty years earlier, it was $408. Who can survive off that? My rent is $575 and that is cheap here. Myth #3: Social mobility is easily achievable. WRONG! It is a common belief that if people work hard they can pull themselves out of poverty. Unfortunately, two-thirds of people living in poverty are working an average of 1.7 jobs. One in four workers earns poverty-level wages less than $8.84 an hour. There are a lot of people working hard and are still not making it. Nationally, one in four working families is struggling, and 27 percent have incomes below 200 percent of the poverty level. Check this out. This statistic blew me away.......If an individual has a high school diploma or less and takes a minimum wage job, the research shows that in 10 years, on average, his or her income will increase just $2 per hour. Then after working another 15 years, the hourly rate will increase only 25 cents more, totaling an increase of $2.25 in twenty-five years. So in Oregon the minimum wage in 2006 was 7.50 and if a person worked at that same job for 25 years they would make only $9.75. Myth #4 Education is readily available and accessible to all people. WRONG! According to the National Institute of Early Education Research, less than 60 percent of eligible children were served by Head Start programs--the programs that are usually children's first opportunity for a quality education. I could go on and on. There is way more info that I recommend everyone to look more closely at. It's a class issue too and we choose to ignore and blame the victim, especially because we are afraid of the unknown. People do not understand poverty or even generational poverty. How can you judge when you don't know?