| HexenLord said: Not sure what to say here. Welfare recipients can be split up into 2 groups. The first group are people who are actually trying. They are trying to get a job but most won't hire them. They try to pay their bills but are still having trouble. They try to make a life for themselves but are in a low spot. The other group is where the complaints originate. I myself have lived on welfare for a good while after my parents divorced. My mom had a full time job and was trying, but it still wasn't enough to pay all of the bills plus take care of 2 children. We settled into a neighborhood that had very low rental rates. Apparently, the majority of everyone in this neighborhood was in a similar situation. Then I started to get acquainted to the other side. Women spitting out a child a year for most of their adult lives, not a single father anywhere to be seen, and they didn't care. They wanted children and didn't care if the fathers stuck around. They made no attempts at getting a job and barely even made attempts to raise their 4-8 kids. These children ran around constantly vandalizing property, breaking into houses and cars, doing whatever they wanted. When I would ask the parents what they planned on doing for work, they would tell me nothing; that they didn't care because they got welfare, food stamps, huge income tax returns, section 8 housing, and the list grows. I'm sorry but even as a person on welfare, it would dig at the deepest nerve to see a woman in ragged clothing walking into the local Walmart with her 6 children letting them run around and scream and do whatever they wanted so that they could come in and grab a couple cases of beer and some cigars and go back home. |
If those are food assistance dollars, then that would be the fault of the state, NOT the federal government.
The federal government does not regulate how food assistance money is used, the states must do that. Some states use credit/debit cards and limit where that money can be spent and what items that money can be spent on. For instance, alcohol, tobacco, fast food, and gambling (lottery tickets) are prohibited uses. In some states, like Michigan where they have a bottle refund program, even carbonated beverages are prohibited because people can convert that into cash for other purposes that food assistance money cannot be used for.
So, if someone is walking into a store and paying for alcohol, it's either the state's fault OR those are funds that they have been given or earned elsewhere.
