Which is a better way to help those less fortunite?

Which candidate is talking about welfare... Obama certainly isn't... and if you listening to McCain, for the record, he's the one who's been lying out of his teeth...

... Not Obama, but McCain...

Obama/Biden 2008!!!

To help them get a new job and help them acquire the tools necessary for those jobs... personally if I am going to help people in need out, I would much rather give it directly to the person in need or through a program that I trust and that I can see my contributions being used effectively.

Holy Cow, just because long term welfare went out the door during the Clinton administration, doesn't meant that there aren't people that don't abuse the program... It is meant for short term use... but there are stilll people that can/will/do scam the system....

Chris, is it because welfare is for the children the reason that (according to a 2006 U.S. Census study) that women on government assistance are 3 times more likely to have children than women that are not?

Basic needs doesn't mean "doesn't have to work".

We should provide people with a livable wage so they can work a job and pay for their own needs.

We should offer affordable post-secondary education so said people can then pay their own way through school (while working a normal 40 hour work week so they can attend classes too). If you make people work 60, 70 hours a week - they can NEVER get an education and will always remain in the same spot.

That's bad for everyone.

To continue the fish analogy: we need to give the man a rod and some bait to get him started.

Create new jobs which is what McCain/Palin will do.

Expand the safety net to include mandatory job relocation/education.

Have more oversight into the welfare programs,, cull out undeserving people so that more funds would be available to the elderly and disabled as it is now they have to live on a poverty level because others who do not need it abuse the program.

Behavorial modification would help I believe. The poor sad to say often fall into bad habits. No all, but some. If we could raise the impoverish community and teach them responsibility, proper social behavior, and most important marketable skills we could be putting the unfortunate on the right track. Also key is building character to handle life's bad luck and many disappointments. Those usually eat away at someone's will if he or she lacks character.

According to the Constitution, we as individuals should help the less fortunate NOT the government

"Congress has not unlimited power to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated (in the Constitution)." Thomas Jefferson

"Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government." James Madison

No.....we give the wealthiest people tax-free ride through life and charge it to the little guy.....oh wait...we're already doing that.

Uuummmm.....Teach a teenager how to make a fillet 'o fish sandwich at a McJob and tax the hell out of him, keep him down so he can make more fillet 'o'fish sandwiches the rest of his life and pay even more taxes, but let the McFranchise owner pay next to nothing

Both are necessary...and welfare doesn't work like that...you don't just get a check if you do nothing...you either have to have a disability or have children (the money is really to help the children and those unable to work)...

i say both one wont work you help the poor onto their feet and them set them on the road of work you need to aknowledge the fact that some people cant work have no acces to it and are very unfortunate i think putting this issue into 2 awnsers is naieve as we can see capitalism isnt working and i think a more perminent solution is in order to make things fairer NOT COMMUNISM

Jobs would work for many who are unemployed, but the vast majority are not only unemployed, they are not ABLE to work. Most are children in the foster care system, many are the elderly, and others are the disabled and our Veterans. Obama is promising to help them AND help with new jobs.

Welfare is a short term safety net not a way of life. Long term welfare hasn't been available for sometime now.