Liberals. Is welfare a good deal?

What makes you such an authority on Liberals ? It sounds like you hate all of them in spite of not knowing them with any degree of detail. You probably do not talk to any of them to actually find out the real facts of their lives. Also, it is impossible to think that liberals are the only ones getting public assistance. Do you feel the same disdain for the unfortunate republicans that need and accept this government assistance ? I am sure that there are people from all political parties who need and accept this help so have abit of compassion for them, not judgment.

However there are many examples of abuse of the help available and that is the real problem, on that point, I do agree that the ones who are milking the system are bad examples and should have some actions taken against them. Perhaps they need to be monitored, somehow supervised as to eligibility and put into a work program similar to how the unemployment system requires recipients to prove thet have made the effort to seek work.

Most of the people who are on food stamps would prefer it if they had incomes that would provide enough food to live, and the shame of having to ask for the help is felt by many. Its like most other systems that offer help like food stamps, healthcare,etc. The system was designed for specific people in dire straights but some will inevitably find ways to take advantage of it to the detriment of those who actually need it.

The Republicans and Tea Baggers favorite chant is how much they are against socialism and big government. And they love to be against any federal Program regardless to who the program helps or how much good the particular program does.

Yet today after 8 consecutive years of Republican social program cutting, economy ruining tax cuts, war mongering and profiteering our nation is gripped by the worse unemployment in nearly 60 years and we have more people on welfare and food assistance than we have had in at least the last 40 years.

Many of the states with the worst unemployment situations and where peoples unemployment benefits are low or have run out are in the rural south, states like Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Virginia, Tennessee, South Carolina and Arkansas, and those are the very states that are most in need of the cash assistance, food stamps, medical and housing assistance provided by the Federal government yet they tend to vote Republican year after year.

I have always wondered why that is? I think maybe it is the shame from having been on welfare or maybe it's a reverse psychological thing, where those people know they will get it anyway despite having voted against it.

But for what ever reason they do vote Republican and they do take all of the handouts that the Federal Government provides.

To me they are nothing but hypocrites, who talk down the government as well as the programs that provide a little cash assistance to help provide food for many of their families, housing assistance to keep a roof over their families heads, as well as medical assistance which enables them to be cared for when they are sick or their child gets injured.

I don't begrudge any Republican or their family that is down on their luck, and who in these tough times may have lost their jobs or had their family income severely reduced, the help that only the Federal Government is able to provide. Especially those Republicans who even in the best of times live in our poorest states , and to whom life on the public dole has become a way of life leading to a form of dependence on the Federal Government that last from generation to generation.

But what I do resent is that they act like all the help that they get from the government is something sinful, and what I don't understand is if they hate it so much why do they take it at all?

I think I must be different than Republicans, because if I hated something as bad as they want us to believe they hate welfare and government ran social programs why are so many of the recipients of the benefits of those programs located in the so called Republican Red States?

Optimist - your post is a great example of liberal stupidity and ignorance. It serves as a perfect little reminder why you knuckleheads shouldn't be in charge of a popsicle stand let alone anything of value. And I'm putting you in a larger group even though I know you are just a tool with absolutely no power except the willingness to lick the boots of your statist masters.

Allow me to explain...

I live in one of the red states you mentioned. Even though I think the west coast states are full of libtards, I know that not EVERYONE is a collectivist moron. Probably around 60-70%. And also in varying degrees.

Can you not see that red states like mine are filled with worthless parasites? Sure we call them democrats but whatever. You can have them and in return we can stop paying the taxes that support the behavior we disagree with. We will also stop taking any welfare going forward since our paychecks will be unmolested going forward.

You make fun of your fellow statists that are trapped behind enemy lines. Free them and be reunited with your brothers and sisters to build the utopia you desire. We'll have fun watching that.

You would have to ask the Red State of Jeb Bush's Florida which takes in the most Federal Money, next Texas.......,

about ALL the Red states in Fact~!

It's conservatives who use the most welfare.

this cant be serious.....