If a person receives monetary assistance through welfare do they have an ethical obligation to repay?

Yes they do! Everyone gets down on their luck and if they need government aid, that's cool. But if you can pay it back to eventually help someone else then you should.

Once you are gainfully employed then contributions to unemployment, social security, etc. are AUTOMATICALLY taken out of your paychecks. And so in that way they ARE paying back.

Plus, presuming they have been gainfully employed prior to their taking government assistance, they have already paid money into the system, just as you and I do week after week.

Can’t answer this question really. Such a majority of those on welfare aren’t trying to get back on their feet. They don’t want to, and probably never will. They will be sure to have plenty of babies to increase that check though, and make sure that those babies grow up to be the same social leeches that mommy and the various babies daddies are. (Go ahead, dispute that one!)

These same people have no ethics, and don’t care. With the exception of the elderly or permanently disabled, anyone on public aid should lose the right to vote for as long as they aren’t contributing, only taking. That might change things.

I guess that depends on the circumstances. I've paid into the system for many years, and have never taken anything out of it. If for some reason, I would have to use the system for a few months (not that it will ever happen), I would be more inclined to think that I've gotten a return on my tax dollars.

Those who don't abuse the system are the same people who pay into it.

No more than the government has the ethical responsibility to use my tax dollars wisely.

They do have a responsibility to themselves to get independent though.

No.

And that's who Welfare is intended for. People who do try to get back on their feet and get a job.

Welfare was never intended for these Democrat Families who have been on Welfare for Generations.

And with none ever trying to get a job.

Big businesses don't have anything to worry about paying anything back for Corporate Welfare except for campaign contributions to politicians who bureaucratically back them up. They receive more welfare money in U.S. tax dollars than poor people could even dream of.

Israel is the biggest welfare recipient of all!

Do you think they could ever pay anything back?

Maybe if they are somehow able to successfully follow through with their imperial Zionist expansion efforts of gaining more economic control of the middle east.

(all this at the expense of terrorism -- is it worth it?)

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No, but they have an obligation to use the services to better their situation so they don't have to receive lifetime benefits unless they are disabled.

They do repay it and probably paid into it before they needed it by paying their taxes. So no they don't.

To me, it would always be a moral obligation to repay those who have supported me when I was down.