[quote=Revans Exile]
It is not government responsibility to feed, shelter, or hydrate you.All of them.All of them.All of them.Electricity and Internet or not basic human rights. They are a luxuries.
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lmao ur sayin' the un doesnt know what a basic humn rght es

troll harder scrub

e: Srsly thugh, ur a 5th lvl charmander tryin' to fck wit lvl 100 Blastoises. Gonna get hydro pumped. lol

[quote=Dervish]A part of me kind of hopes that people who make blanket statements about welfare and the poor end up hitting a really shitty time in their life where they have to walk a mile in someone else's shoes.

It's extremely difficult, and almost impossible in a lot of cases, to get out of poverty once you're in there. Contrary to popular belief, most people on welfare probably don't want to be on it, seeing as it's probably embarrassing as hell having to pull out food stamps and it's not nearly as much money as people seem to think it is. Yes, there's people who leech off the system, and those that are usually caught doing it end up making the news in some way and skewing people's perceptions. 

[URL=http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-4-types-people-welfare-nobody-talks-about/]Required reading before anyone continues on this line of discussion.[/URL]

Seriously, not everyone's born lucky or in a well-off family. Just because you grew up and live in a comfortable life doesn't mean everyone else has had a similar experience.

That's all I really am going to say on this matter, because the way things are looking, I know exactly the kind of responses this is going to get. But before you decide to get all foamy at the mouth because I don't subscribe to a black and white brand of politics regarding social issues, at least consider doing some rudimentary research into shit before writing off a large group of people as worthless because you have absolutely no idea what put them in that situation or what they're doing about it. 

Keeping an open mind about any topic never hurt anyone.
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Agreed, there has been numerous studies that prove that the vast majority of people on welfare do in fact need it. The "4%" fraud was not a made up number but an estimate founded by... Some college, I do need to look it up again. The fact is it would cost more money to find and prosecute that 4% then it would to just let them get away with it, because the number is so insignificantly small. It's very silly when people start arguing to spend more money catching / punishing poor people instead of finding more constructive ways to help. Nobody has ever responded positively to negative reinforcement.