Fix our welfare and public housing problem?

M S : This is not a myth. It is very true. it was worse before Pres. Reagan's welfare reform policies. I know, I used to work for part of the welfare system.

The biggest problem I see is that it is simply to easy to get on welfare and too easy to stay.

A lot of what we are see now is young, single, girls having babies-and a very high percentage of them have mothers who did the same thing.

Plus it is socially accepted, sometimes even encouraged and/or rewarded, for these girls to have these babies.

We need to make it much more unattractive for babies to have babies. How about this-the government takes 10% of you income for the rest of your life or until you pay back every cent of government handout you ever received.

@ typo

I'm glad you said that because I wrote a letter to Obama about this very issue. My suggestion was that if a minor child has a baby then the parents of that child are held responsible and receive no child tax credit for the new baby until the minor child is of the age 21. Same goes for the parent of the baby no child tax credit until age 21. I'm not talking about WIC or other programs designed for the child to sustain life. The only reason I even wrote the letter is because it was popular when I went to high school for the girls in my grade to have a baby for the money and free ride so to speak (housing, food, etc..) Now 8 years later those very people are still on the government dime and I don't receive anything back for my hard earned money because I choose to be responsible. Never did understand why we reward stupidity and punish responsibility!!

The solution to this problem in the US isn't solvable by any means that you'd be able to accomplish by writing a letter. The solution starts way back with the dissolving of our freedoms and the near death of our bill of rights. With the bill of rights essentially gone the government does what it will.

Although it is a lot to understand, I will try to make this simple for you to understand. Free trade is dead, the government is corrupt and our 'economy' isn't really real. When the government takes your money and gives it to someone else, a business, a corporation, another person or even another country they are no longer being a government but being something far more, the term is something like a dictatorship.

The solution is revolution. No letter sent by mail will accomplish this. We need a leader and I am such a leader, we need a plan and I have such a plan. There will be a message in the near future to which our people will hear, and it will then be time to act. A new constitution is written, a new republic is formed and we will fire our repressive government so that no longer they will destroy our world and country.

I agree with typo. Make cash assistance a loan. If people know they will have to pay it back,they may not be so eager to get on it.

I was born with disabilities but worked many years as a nurse. When my disabilities prevented me from working,I applied for disability. While I was waiting the two years it took to be approved,I had to rely on welfare. As soon as my disability was approved,I had to pay welfare back every penny they gave me.

There should also be a time limit with no exceptions. Just because another baby comes along shouldn't mean that benefits continue longer.

Perhaps I'm wrong here, but I don't believe Dr. Paul has ever been for getting rid of public education. He has been against federal interference in public education. I have never heard him say anything about state run schools.

Yea, these folks could get a job and quite living off the taxpayers. Public housing, food stamps, aid to families with children, on and on its about time we stopped giving people a free ride. Take care of yourself for a change!

According to the US government, the majority of welfare recipients want to work and stay on welfare for only 2 yrs. The generation after generation thing is a myth. Also, there already is a time limit. It is mostly young mothers on welfare. Improve education opportunities in this country and the number will decrease. Make a good education available to more people.

Plan A: 1. Give some award to everyone moving out. 2. Bring university students on board; they can run a project by which public housing users (PHU) can be helped to draw up a CV, and market their own skills better. Everyone has skills. 3. Award people who help the PHU's get out of the system by i.e. helping them set up a business of their own. 4. sometimes, these people or limited by their own frame of reference; try to get them to do voluntary work - they will earn a small grant, and feel better about themselves. this might help them to create a vision of helping themselves. Plan B. Provide each family with a serviced stand, and the building materials to build a really tiny house, i.e. something from thesmallhousesociety website. they might develop skills that would help them earn a better income in other ways too.