Under what circumstances would you apply for welfare?

[thestonesfan]

Simple question.

What would make you ask for a taxpayer-funded handout?

 

[thestonesfan]

I meant to post a poll, but oh well.

For myself, I suppose watching my children starving would break me.

 

[AceChilla]

When I have the right to do so. After all me and my parent's have been paying taxes all the time, so when I have a chance to get something back I'll do it.

In my opinion giant welfare states like The Netherlands don't work. It's asking for abuse and makes a country lazy and unambitious.

 

[JohnRM]

If I felt that God was telling me that it were his will, I would do so.

 

[thestonesfan]

Originally posted by Drunk Master
When I have the right to do so. After all me and my parent's have been paying taxes all the time, so when I have a chance to get something back I'll do it.

That type of thinking will destroy your system, but I agree with it.

 

[marioh]

I'd have to be at the point where I'm almost homeless, and starving, to take a govt handout.
I have too much pride to just accept a handout if I run into "hard" times. I'll work through it, and get through it, like I always have, without anyone else's help.

 

[KaNick]

Well, I would do just about any job before I would apply for welfare. I don't think that is what you meant so when I couldn't feed myself or afford a place to live.

If I felt that God was telling me that it were his will, I would do so.

You're new so I can't tell if you are joking.

 

[WillJ]

I think a better question is, what in the world would make me not ask for a taxpayer-funded handout (if I could get one)?

 

[ainwood]

Originally posted by Drunk Master
When I have the right to do so.

Interesting concept. Is welfare a 'right' or a 'privaledge'?

 

[JohnRM]

Originally posted by GrandMasta Nick
You're new so I can't tell if you are joking.

John HSOG

HSOG = Humble Servant of God

 

[AceChilla]

Originally posted by thestonesfan
That type of thinking will destroy your system, but I agree with it.

That's why it doesn't work.

In the Netherlands we are slowy but surely cutting down severly on our welfare system, and we are right.

At one moment in time we had 1 million people receiving benefits because they weren't able to work on 16 million people. It's seemed like the bar was lowered all the time. People who said they were deppresed and stressed out recieved welfare for a few years, even people who weren't able to speak dutch got money

The system just askes for abuse.

 

[amadeus]

Simply put, never. I have the will and the strength to earn what is rightfully mine.

 

[SanPellegrino]

simple, if I wouldn't be able to care for myself (or my family when I got one)

 

[addiv]

What kind of handout are we talking about? Because if we're talking about any kind of tax-funded handout I'm already receiving one, and I haven't asked for it, but I receive it because all students receive it.

 

[thestonesfan]

Originally posted by rmsharpe
Simply put, never. I have the will and the strength to earn what is rightfully mine.

All the same, don't you have as much a right as anyone to the money they taxed from you?

I've only really been in the workforce a couple years, and I could take a very nice vacation if I got back everything I've put into Social Security.

Instead, I get to watch in horror as weak 75 year old men try to manuever their gigantic RV's, as they do that idiotic travelling thing all old people love to do.

 

[Ian Beale]

If i couldn't work either because of a lack of employment opportunities or disability i would claim. I wouldn't be too proud to claim because my parents have contributed a significant amount of their income over the years and so i'd feel entitled to claim money if i needed it. I wouldn't however, claim because i couldn't be bothered to get a job even if i knew that i could; it just wouldn't seem right to me.

 

[Perfection]

Frankly, if the government wants to give it to me, I'll take it.

 

[Double Barrel]

To feed my kid, I would kindly ask for assistance.

But (big but), I would have to be at poverty level to be unable to feed my child. Meaning I have sold everything, cannot find a job, parents and friends are no longer an option, and so on.

It would be a worst case scenario.

 

[Fanatica]

My answer would be never if at all possible with one exception and that would be if by accepting (signing up for) welfare it would in some way keep me out of prison, or keep my kids from being taken away from me and having them become wards of the state.
I think I'd rather die on someone's door step with my hand stretched out seeking compassion and charity than the welfare alternative.

It's not that I'm against welfare, I just think it's unhealthy for the individual. I'm sure there are exceptions.

 

[stormbind]

It would be logically to apply if you were eligible. I am not eligible and so my opinion does not matter.

Those who do not need help are in no position to make decisions for those who do need help.