Are you for or against WELFARE ?

The same people are still on welfare and all sorts of government entitlements before the "job crisis" in 2008. There's a lot of people who don't want to work... because why should they when they can easily live off of welfare indefinately?

If the U.S. Government is just going to continuously piss our taxpayer money away carelessly, frivilously, wastefully, into misaapropriated cash cow pet pork projetcs with no management to the system whatsoever, then WE THE PEOPLE NEED TO THINK THAT THE GOVERNMENT DOESN'T REALLY NEED OUR MONEY... YOU HAVE HALF THE PEOPLE IN AMERICA PAYING FOR THE OTHER HALF RIGHT NOW!!!!

1. There should be STRICT GOVERNMENT OVERSIGGHT ON WELFARE PROGRAMS.

2. There should be restrictions and time limits on collecting WELFARE benefits.

3. WELFARE should a very minimal amount of money provided to help transition to work.

4. If you collect WELFARE you should be subject to drug testing, and be disqualified if you refuse or test positive.

5. If you collect any welfare benefits, you should be required to work by doing community service for the county in which you reside 40 hours a week, closely monitored, and clocked in and out.. i.e., cleaning municipal, state, county buildings, cutting lawn, picking up garbage, etc.

I personally know a husband and wife with 3 kids. The wife (Kerry) works as secretary making just above minimum wage with benefits and her husband (Kevin) works as an electrician. They decided that it would be more convenenient if they simply divorced for financial reasons, and they did get divorced uncontested last year.

Kerry was approved for Section 8 housing (rent is paid for 100%), The EBT or Access Card with 3 dependents i.e. Food Stamps and subsitence $1400., WIC Woman Infant Children, LIHEAP Home Heating Assitance 80% is paid for by the county/state. Entitlement after entitlement including a free cell phone plan!!!

Kevin quit his job prior to the divorced being final, and claimed he was homeless at the Department of Welfare office. Kevin automatically got emergency subsistence after filling out the application. Kevin is now working as a sub-contractor and paid under the table, he makes his own hours up if so chooses to work. Kerry still works the 9 to 5, but is right under the threshold of under the minimum annual income to qulaify.

Kerry and Kevin are both still living together now making more money combined with benefits claiming poverty. The fact of the matter is they know how to use the system with no government oversight (That’s the problem). And, there is NO time limit as to how long these benefits are paid, they are indefinate once you’re qualified.

In fact, Kevin was sick last week, he said he thought he had bronchitis or pneumonia. Kevin walked into the emergency room without having any medical benefits and seen 100 people waiting to be seen, so he took a bus down town (which he gets free tokens for). Kevin layed down on the sidewalk outside a department store, and people called an ambulance in which he was transported to the same hospital he came from. Kevin was automatically placed right in front of the line in an E.R. bed before those people waiting in the waiting room. Kevin jokingly said, he saw the same people waiting as he departed the hospital before noon that day with a prescription of antibiotics. I asked Kevin, so what do you do when the bill comes? Kevin said, what bill (laughs)? Where are they going to send the bill to, I don’t have an address, I’m homeless, remember? (laughs again), that’s how you get free medical coverage.

I can't report them... they are family ya know. My Sister married and illegal immigrant (Kevin) in 2009. I live in Hazleton, Pennsylvania... and people come from New York and Jersey to become eligible after 30 days in state because PA has the best and most benefits for people. I live in Hazleton PA, and it is best known of illegal immigration, LQQK it up. There are more illegal immigrants living here than regular U.S. citizens living on or near the border, like Arizona. Hazleton, PA is a haven for illegal immigrants!!! The word is out.. And don't expect to get anything if you don't speak Spanish because English is spoken rarely, maybe second in Hazleton, PA which is now Northern mexico.

I HAVE WRITTEN TO SO MANY CONGRESSMAN AND SENATORS REGARDING WELFARE and they are receptive and understand the system is screwed up and uneccessary excessive money is being wasted. When the bottom drops out, SHTF these freeloading scumbags are the first to go, their benefits will be cut and they will have absolutely nothing, not a pot to piss in.