02-11-2010, 08:23 PM
well, why should people have to work at MacDonald's instead of getting training and finding meaningful work? The welfare system is hard to leave because it's very hard to get past the approval process and then you get cut off as soon as you start earning anything (more or less), even if you aren't really on solid footing, and more importantly perhaps they cut off your medical coverage even though you start earning but with no benefits. So one real illness in the family and you're in a deep hole of debt.
The programs seem to be run by people who are good at coming up with forms and rules and crunching numbers, but understand nothing about the human spirit and what feeds it.
And it's such a myth that people on welfare are living the fat life. Anyone who thinks so, try it. It takes people's self esteem away to be in the system and sets unrealistic amounts of money for survival. The allowances are so unrealistic that people pretty much have to fudge on it or they'll be on the streets. They have to find ways of making unreported income or getting help from friends, relatives, SO's because no one can rent a livable home and pay utilities and eat with what they give you. That's supposed to be an incentive for people to magically jump out of the hole but it doesn't work. Training programs for real careers are needed so much more than all this money that goes to pay for the social services bureaucracy, forcing people to report like parolees every month, forcing people into dead end low-paying jobs ... and then they wonder why people do drugs, get depressed, give up.
The programs seem to be run by people who are good at coming up with forms and rules and crunching numbers, but understand nothing about the human spirit and what feeds it.
And it's such a myth that people on welfare are living the fat life. Anyone who thinks so, try it. It takes people's self esteem away to be in the system and sets unrealistic amounts of money for survival. The allowances are so unrealistic that people pretty much have to fudge on it or they'll be on the streets. They have to find ways of making unreported income or getting help from friends, relatives, SO's because no one can rent a livable home and pay utilities and eat with what they give you. That's supposed to be an incentive for people to magically jump out of the hole but it doesn't work. Training programs for real careers are needed so much more than all this money that goes to pay for the social services bureaucracy, forcing people to report like parolees every month, forcing people into dead end low-paying jobs ... and then they wonder why people do drugs, get depressed, give up.