Limit the amount of time a person can use the Welfare system and keep it only to be used by American citizens . We have too many Americans who give birth to multiple children and refuse to work to support them because “I get paid more by welfare if I have kids and work less.” In limiting the time a person can utilize the welfare system, we save money and encourage those needing it to find employment before those benefits run out. The amount of immigrants currently on the system also takes away from those Americans who fall on hard times due to unforseen circumstances, ie death of a spouse, injury etc, and gives it to those who have no business recieving hand outs from our government.
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I 100% agree and wrote something similar yesterday. Leeches need to be dumped from it immediately if they’re not citizens. Dump the trash, it’s only for citizens. For what it’s worth, the whole “getting paid to spit out kids thing” is a “very exclusive to illegals” issue. The amount of citizens that actually do it is entirely less, but I agree with the sentiment that some need to only be on for X amount of time if they’re serial handout takers with the means to have a job.
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Unfortunately I have met too many citizens as well who do this. There use to be more pride in providing for your family, shame associated with needing the handout. If women want to be treated with respect, the ones who do this need to act respectfully and stop using their bodies as a way to remain on the governments dime.
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All entitlements should be abolished. No where in the Constitution is it enumerated.
Incrementalist
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Hardly an incrementalist, however it is nice to see we can take an open discussion and resort to labels when we dont agree even here. Thank you for the reminder that all public forums are often left open to scrutiny and can result in name calling.
While I do agree many “entitlements” do need to go through major reform or be trashed all together, the entitlements you speak of when getting rid of all governments entitlements would also include veteran pensions, medicare, and social security. Are you also in favor of losing those programs as well, as they are in fact, classified as government entitlements?
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SS is not an entitlement - it is a required donation from individuals with the “promise” of investment for later payback by the gov. It should be illegal for the gov to “borrow” from SS for other uses. I was “automatically” switched to medicare when I turned 65 - another mandatory gov insurance program. And I don’t mind if we stop SS if we return all we paid in for our years of work, plus a reasonable “return on investment” for example the average gain of the stock market over the term of years of contribution.
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It should not be considered as an entitlement program, but is unfortunately classified as such given that it is available to most if not all citizens regardless of means. I 100% agree with ending it if they give everything back that we paid in or if that is not plausible, no longer allowing it to be utilized by the government. While it may have started out in the right direction, it has not aged well due to government use.
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Agree 
. If people MUST work to support themselves we will propagate pride for earning rather than indifference in taking from others. This will in turn affect the collective mentality from one of entitlement (them vs us) to unified, constructive values imo. The ship must be turned around.
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I think that one thing that could help with that is to require welfare recipients to do some community service as part of receiving their benefits.
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The system is definitely backwards. One family who works hard but still struggles is told they don’t qualify for help because they made to much. While another is getting paid under the table, not documenting all their hours, and selling or giving away extra food because their paperwork shows they are not doing as much. Something definitely has to be done.
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I agree, but people could fall back on hard times such a catastrophe like Helene or Milton.
So I recommend a budget limit per 10yrs; meaning if things got hard and used up their yearly budget of $1000 (depending on the economy at the time) they would have to wait 5 or 10yrs for it be replenish.
This could be tweaked based on county or state.
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It is an entitlement—it relies on the ponzi scheme of young citizens paying for older citizens and never for their own benefit pool.
You can’t get what you paid in—much less with interest—because that money is long gone. While you had the chance you should have done basic research and called out the scam.
Instead, you’re calling to leech children even harder rather than addressing the scam.
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The only exception would be to combat veterans—the government asked them to risk their lives, they did, so in a transactional way there is a direct duty to serve them.
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Just so I am understanding this correctly, combat vets who served directly in combat are the only ones who should recieve a veteran pension, however, those who did not serve directly in combat, but did devote 20+ years to active duty service should not?
All who enlist or commission do so with the full knowledge that they at any time can be called to give their life in the service of their country, so I am curious as to how that would be differentiated when leaving active duty service. How many would still sign that dotted line, as many of us have, knowing that after the 20 years of service, we would not be guaranteed any form of retirement?
With that, the retirement system for veterans has recently been changed, would that mean some would loose it entirely?
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Temporary hand up not hand out. Personal responsibility for life choices and decisions.
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I grew up in a welfare family. Simply providing funding to families is not enough. Welfare funding should also require education to the families/caregivers. Finding employment, skill building, budgeting, health/wellness, treating addictions, etc. without learning you can’t have liberty. Meaning without learning the lessons required to not depend on welfare, these families will continue to spiral back to dependency. Teach Americans useful and practical life skills. Don’t give them man a fish, teach him how to fish. I agree with a fixed amount of time allowed on welfare.
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Yes, agreed
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In times where there is no war, for many, it has become an entitlement program in itself.
- mad that the army doesn’t let him wear makeup
- closest Tim Walz ever got to actual
- Servicemembers can go there and get a full gender transition
(for the sake of my spiritual wellbeing I didn’t watch the videos and don’t recommend others doing so either. it’s just supporting points)
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The way it’s set up currently incentivizes those receiving welfare benefits to continue to leech off the actual working taxpayer class. The more kids you have and less you work, the more assistance you get. This enables laziness and incentivizes some to continue to have more and more kids to get more and more taxpayer money. Cut them off and make them work for their money, instead of taking ours!
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Make welfare / poverty something that can actually be climbed out of. Agree and also complex.
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