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"SataiDelennn;14875424" wrote:"DivinylsFan;14874270" wrote:
it's the same in Australia but many of those babies supported by welfare grow up to be successful and contribute it back, and the parents are consumers and so it all goes around in the economy. One baby supported by welfare as an example was Steve Irwin. His father was a single dad and lived in the Western suburbs of Sydney, where all the government housing is. And we all know how much he gave back.
It's not like that in the States. Most people who get sucked into Welfare stay on it, generation after generation. Some want to get off it and can't, but most enjoy it and never want to get off it. They're the ones who try and get as much of the taxpayers' money as they can, all the while, thinking they're just getting it from the government (not understanding that it's taxpayers supporting them financially and medically). So they just take and take and take and take. It causes a lot of resentment on the part of the people paying in with their tax dollars. It's very frustrating.
I know that this is a common theme of resentment, but instead of wanting to remove these security nets from people that truly do need them (children), we need to consider how to get them out of poverty. They need better education and chances in life. Something that certain political parties like to cut. We never invest in the future or put anything into those we deem unworthy. How will they ever get out of poverty without opportunity? Even the middle class is made to struggle through tremendous debts. Our lives are near over when we finally pay off our student loans. It's beyond ridiculous.
And from a personal note...my mom was a welfare kid. Her father left her mom with 8 children one day. He went out and never came back. So they received benefits and they had no chance of ever getting out of it because her mom did not have the money to take care of that many kids. My mom's opportunity came from a neighbor whom her and her sister helped on weekends. They did laundry and grocery shopping for her. They also kept her company. She told my mom and her sister that if they kept good grades and continued helping her, she would send them to college. None of my mother's other brothers or sisters went to college. But my mom and her sister did and both got themselves out of poverty.
