Why are we still worrying about welfare? If you ask me, I say there should be a limit on how much welfare you can receive, unless you desperately need it. I personally come from a good family, live in an upper middle-class home, go to a fine school, and I am enjoying life. No child should be denied the chance for an education like mine because their parents can't afford books for them to read or a computer for them to learn with. And no child should be denied a good life because their parents can't afford a good house or good food or even good plumbing. I think the solution would be to give people welfare for, oh, about five years. But by then, they either get a job or live on the little money they have. If we just come up with a good solution, like the one I proposed, this would not even be an issue. Take care, everyone.

Welfare is okay only for the people that really need it, like the people that have about two or three jobs tryin to make a living and can't then they have a right to be on welfare. They should make it harder to be on it so everyone won't try to be on it because of lazyness!

How stupid are we? Welfare should go to the completly disabled, the handicapped, not slackers who can't get off their ass and get a job. People who are selfish enough to free ride off our tax dollars don't deserve them! I dry heave each time I imagine my money going to a perfectly capable person and it getting used on their food and shelter. Man, get a damn job and make your own living. Wellfare is a crock of sh*t and I support it in no way except in the case of someone who really and I mean REALLY needs it. MOOCHERS AND FREELOADER SUCK!!!!

Welfare is kind of a tough subject. Even the Bible teaches us to take care of those that are less fortunate. My biggest issue with welfare, as with most Government programs, is the controls or lack of controls in place to ensure the program is run fairly and correctly. I have personal experience with people who have told me directly that they can make more money on welfare by having one more child and not going to work, than getting out and finding a job. I am sorry but to provide a life long income and to view welfare as a career is not the purpose of the program. I have no problems seeing my tax dollars go to those who truly deserve the help. I do have a problem when the program does not enforce its own control features to encourage people to move out of the program quickly. There are a lot of Federal, State, and local Government jobs that my tax dollars already support. I feel very strongly that people on welfare should perform some level of public service to be eligible for their funds. Pick up trash, empty trash cans, answer phones, make coffee, I don’t care what you have them do just do something.

Seems bdram is very opionated as well as ignorant..An opionated ignorant person can be very dangerous. (don't play with matches bdram) If you work for or eat at Domino's.Wendy's or maybe you've heard of the New York Times? Both the Wendy and Domino pizza owner's were once the product's of welfare. I can cite many more but won't for lack of time. I also noticed Bdram likes calling people idiots among other names in his opinion of our Secretary of State. Well Bdram I want to share my opinion of you... Before you call others ignorant and idiot's , at least learn to spell. You also appear to be a lonely bitter ole soul with a heart that is hard as stone. So, in closing I also am a product of welfare and now I'm an employer. Without welfare as a young 20 year old with a child I'm not sure where I'd be right now..So maybe you should just "Get a Life" instead of simply telling others to get a job

This could become a real problem if we enter a recession at the same time that the welfare rug is pulled out from under the remaining "truly disadvantaged" welfare cases. I am hopeful that Bush's promotion of faith-based charities will have greater success in helping people than have the government beauracracies. I also would advocate giving states an opportunity to opt out of the national minimum wage, since a one-size fits all policy creates major disincentives for hiring unskilled individuals (esp. in states with a lower cost of living, and therefore lower wage rates). The Welfare Reform Act of 1996 goes down, along with NAFTA, as the best piece of policy to occur in the 1990s. But there remains heavy lifting to be done to help unskilled persons enter the labor market.

GET A JOB!

Welfare should come from the local community, not the government. The government is entirely too wasteful with "charity money". They have to spend so much money making sure their people don't use the money in illegal or unethical ways, that barely any money trickles down to those who really need it.