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Originally Posted by Rochard
There sure are abuses in the system - and they need to be fixed.
Any kind of financial support needs to be short term unless they are disabled. If you fall on hard times that's great, we'll give you support for a period of time - after that you are on your own. Some people were raised on welfare and then as adults come to depend on welfare. If you fall on hard times that's great, we'll give you a limited amount of support for two years and after that you cannot apply for support again for the next four years.
Disability needs to revised too. I have a friend of mine who is considered medically disabled, but otherwise is fully able to work. He is 100% disabled from BOTH the US Army and US Post Office - which shouldn't be possible - and is disabled on the state level. The truth is he is perfectly able to work on a day to day basis. He does have a serious medical condition but it's in remission and doesn't affect him for months at a time; When it does affect him he only has migraines. He might not be able to function for a day, but after that he could go right back to work.
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In a different thread about a similar subject a while back I had said that I believe that part of signing up for welfare of any kind should include meeting with a counselor or taking some classes or something where you sit down and make a legit plan for getting off welfare. Maybe that will include some kind of job training or some other kind of education, but a person going on welfare should have a clear path to getting off of it and they should be required to stay on that path and prove they are working towards it.