On Welfare? Unless you're disabled, get your ass up and volunteer in your community!

While I am for contributing taxes to help the needy I wish the needy would contribute to their communities. However, making comments like what I said in the video, the media and the politically correct would say that people with similar views are racists, xenophobic and bigots.

There is nothing wrong in asking the very people who are using OUR tax dollars to keep them afloat to contribute back in one form or another whether it be by volunteerism, activism in the community, etc. For far too long we have allowed the system to be abused and it is time to cut our losses and get people to use their mental faculties in paying back in some form to the very people they are living amongst.

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[jfsfrnd]

You have to have a child under 18 to get welfare. You have a family? So a woman who has no family, no emotional support and undiagnosed mental illness is supposed to compete with you?

[cycloneous]

@jfsfrnd Did you listen to the video? This video is geared towards who abuse the system put in place to help people who legitimately need it versus those who continually abuse the system and sit on their fat butts wasting tax payer money and not even bothering to contribute to their community.

[jfsfrnd]

@cycloneous You don't know who has a hidden disorder or undiagnosed mental illness by looking at someone. Many of these (mostly women) belong on SSI, but haven't got a clue why they can't function at work. And the system isn't set up to diagnose them. Poor women, especially those who are raised in poverty go through more physical and mental abuse than middle class women and deny it more. You can't '''fix'' the WS by creating a class of slaves who have to work for less than minimum wage.

[cycloneous]

@jfsfrnd I am of the opinion, regardless of social situation, you should contribute if you're getting a handout. No ifs, ands or buts. I understand there are exceptions, but you know what, that should not be a determining factor for some one to at least take pride in taking care of the very community they live in.

What it boils down to in the end is being careful and not spitting out kids irresponsibly and than expecting the taxpayer to cough up the dough.

[cycloneous]

@jfsfrnd Secondly, I am all for helping the needy if you need it, but that is not an excuse to do nothing for the community. I remember when my family needed help, and it wasn't before long that we did not need it. We did not make excuses. My mother raised 6 of us in an expensive city, NYC. I was in the hospital practically most of my early youth, NOT ONCE she complained to the State of NY. So, while I understand there are extremes, those are, I believe, far and few.

[jfsfrnd]

@cycloneous Where are they supposed to take their kids while they contribute. So married women are not supposed to have children? Many of them are on welfare because their husbands ran off on them.

[cycloneous]

@jfsfrnd I'll put it to you this way, if we can put a man on the moon and back with less a megabyte of computer memory, guess what? We can figure out how to address that issue of how to care for the children. Stop making excuses for something that is really not hard at all to figure out. This is not rocket science. . .

[townkevin59]

I am a 40 year old male who lost my Professional Landscape job after 12 years & went on Disability because of a back injury. That was 3 years ago. I went from $800.00 a Week to $700.00 a MONTH!...a Month!! I miss my job terribly but I cannot do it anymore, and yes, I get food stamps to help buy food ($170.00 a month). I live poor as hell now and can't afford much at all, where as before, I was NEVER broke. I guess I'm just a lowlife to society now...Oh well.

[jfsfrnd]

@cycloneous You are still in denial that the people on welfare have to be caring for a child under the age of 18. And you haven't addressed where the kids are supposed to go while the parent contributes.

[jfsfrnd]

@cycloneous So people on SSI/SSDI are supposed to contribute to the community when it has been proven they can't work? You were lucky your mother was able-bodied enough to care for you on her own. You are talking as if ALL welfare recipients just sit around and do nothing which is a lie. Many of them are in college and working.

[jfsfrnd]

@cycloneous Besides the fact that the only reason they are eligible for welfare in the first place is that they are caring for a child under 18. Many of them are already disabled on SSI or seniors and are not required to work. Are they supposed to strap the children on their back and volunteer? You will have to supply 24-7 daycare for free which will only cost more. You are not thinking this through. The idea that you can look at someone and say ''they're lazy'' doesn't solve the problem.