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Originally Posted by kane
This reminds me of a woman that I went to high school with. She would always say that she never believed in birth control because she felt if you were mature enough to have sex you were mature enough to deal with the potential consequences. So, of course, she got knocked up our senior year and was very pregnant at our graduation. She ended up have five kids with four different guys and lives on welfare. She has zero interest in getting off of it as well. What's worse? Recently her oldest daughter turned 17 and became pregnant. The woman, my former classmate, was on Facebook bragging about being a grandma. When someone asked her how her kid was going to support a kid she said, "I showed her how to get her benefits." For this family, welfare is the family business. It's fucking infuriating.
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Agreed. And in the end, it does nobody any good. Doesn't do anything for them to lead a higher quality of life. Doesn't help their communities. And it doesn't help the country as a whole to have a welfare generation, pass that same situation on their kids. If you want these things to change, then major restrictions must be put on welfare and foot stamps. A fixed timeline of receiving the benefits with no strings attached. After that timeline, they need to figure it out on their own. I'd be open to being on welfare having to work 25 hours a week on government or non-profit jobs for their money. At least then they are giving some value back to the community and country. Might also get some to realize if I am going to work 25 hours a week, I might as well go work the 15 other hours and actually make more money.
No 100% easy fix. But keeping the cycle of handouts going, surely isn't the answer.