Welfare Recipients...

First of all..The intentions of this blog is not to downgrade or pass judgement on noone. I live in a glass house, so, throwing stones would not be advisable of me..

I have done research on this subject while pursuing my masters. No,  this is NOT the GOSPEL, but, perspectives on WELFARE.

I believe there are hundreds or millions of people in the world living in poverty. Poverty should never be the standard for any human living in this world. No adult or child should go without adequate food, water or shelter. Therefore, I fully support any system or program that provides relief to such crisis.

What I do not support is freeloaders! Yes, I said freeloaders. It is not fair for anyone to take advantage of a system because they can. This is no different from taking advantage of a person that is helping you. So, what do I mean by taking advantage of a system.

If a person is not disabled and has means to support themselves, they should! Here is a prime example, a young single woman attending college, working full time, living on her own cannot qualify for FOOD STAMPS because she is a full-time college student. A young unemployed single mother automatically qualifies. Now, what is the problem is this picture?...Does not everyone need to EAT.

Another example, A family that has two parents-working with children runs into a crisis were one child needs emergency surgery. So, the entire savings account, and two whole paychecks, including borrowing from 401K is contributed to this surgery. Family goes to social services to get assistance for light bill. Family is denied because they own a home in which they are paying a mortgage on.

A family of two-parents with children that only works part-time, is not able to pay rent for one month due to recent job layoff. Goes to social services to get assistance for rent. Automatically receives assistance because of low-income.

So, in both situations both families demonstrate need, yet, one is denied because they own a home, while the other gets help. Do not both families deserve help?

This is the problem I have with the welfare system. It only caters to keep certain populations of people dependent on the system. Life unseen circumstances or tragedies is not exempt from anyone of any status.

I think it is corrupt that people can support willingly single mothers who choose not to work or go to school. They have programs that even provide "free" child care services, transportation to work, and continual financial support of housing and food. And in some cases receive a great amount of child support. And in many cases, the health department provides birth control.. Now, again! This is not targeting all single mothers on welfare...I know many that are making tremendous progress and some even gotten off assistance...

I just think it is unfair to penalize a woman with no children going to college access to help. The reason why the system does not help many college students is because of the assumption that college is affordable to the affluent. If that is the case then why is there so much debt in college loans students can barely pay back. EVERYONE deserves a break!

***There are male welfare recipients as well, but, the highest population of welfare recipients are single mothers***