Should welfare and food stamps be discontinued after a reasonable time?

I agree 100%. Everyone who complains about the government but receives this aids from them don't have the right to talk. There are many jobs out there, it doesn't matter how bad the economy is. We the people do not need the government. The government needs us. That's why we are asked to join the military and have taxes taken out of us.

I feel we are taking the wrong approach to helping the poor and needy. It is to our benefit that the poor are not just tossed out on the street. It is often easier to turn to a life of crime than look for a job. The cost of using the money we spend on a lifetime welfare is astronomical compared to what it would cost to train these same people in a skill over the course of a few years. A working person would not only save us what we pay them in welfare, it also provides us with tax income from them.

If we were to double the amount of money we pay a person who is unemployed then require that this person goes to work repairing our failing infrastructure, we would actually come out ahead. As it stands, Unemployment payments are equal to tossing money at a problem with no hope for a return.

We do need to to revamp our system of handing out money and not asking for anything in return. But to toss untrained people onto the streets and say you are on your own would have terrible consequences. Especially in the area of crime.

so what do you propose ...if they still have a need for the assistance after you have taken away the assistance? Do you them to be in the hospital dying as proof they need it? really I am serious....you asked a question, but I am trying to get you to look at this not from an ideological point of view but from a real life point of view. Ok you take away the aid. Yes....granted some of the people may somehow miraculously be able to support themselves. The question is...what % of them will that be? Clearly it will not be all of them...it probably will not even be most of them. Lets say 20% of them can now support themselves......how will you determine and when will you determine that the 80% whose aid was also taken away but who really still need aid actually really do need the aid??? or does it matter not matter to you...and you are maybe willing to have people dying of hunger????

does that apply to corporate welfare too ? bush gave out twice as much in corporate welfare to health profitable companies , than he did in social welfare .

for example : bush gave pillsbury $ 8 million dollars for them to advertise 'poppin' fresh dough ' in south america .

that was 8 million that left the country , wasn't even spent in the US .

how can your heart be so cold ?

Should surplus value be discontinued after a reasonable time?