Sure poor people on welfare are people too but many of the people on welfare today are not really poor.

I know poor people when I see them and any one else can tell as well. When you walk into a welfare center and see a supposed "Poor Person," on the welfare line with tattoos' , lots of gold jewelry, some of the best outfits, and hairstyles. This is not a poor person that I am describing, it is a person who is taking advantage of the welfare system.

Furthermore, many of the "Poor," can go to work or get an education and work. Welfare is not supposed to be a permanent lifestyle. Welfare was created during the "Great Depression," to help people get the necessities that they needed until the depression was over. Well, it has been over for many years now and perhaps we are now heading into something similar, but poor people can work.

Likewise, women are having more and more babies just to be able to get more welfare benefits and be able to stay on welfare longer. So, welfare is for poor people but lots of the recipients of welfare are poor only because they do not want to work. They think that welfare is a lifetime benefit when in actuality it can be a trap.

For instance, poor people begin to depend solely on these welfare benefits and they think that they do not have to educate themselves and get to work on their own. Instead, what I have noticed many poor people on welfare doing now is going for disability benefits. Sure, people are now saying that they suffer from depression, they go to a psychiatrist and get the doctor to say that they are depressed. They get their anti-depressants and they go on disability just so that they do not have to work.

In addition, I have even seen cases where women will take their own young children to a psychiatrist and complain about behaviors that are not normal just so they can get their child on disability as well. They get their child or children on ADHD medications, special education classes and that is it, they get a regular monthly income and they do not have to work.

Consequently, many really "Poor People," get sucker punched and lose benefits that they really need because people who are not really poor are trying to juggle the system and are just ruining things for the really poor people.

Finally, I have nothing against the disadvantaged people getting welfare benefits, what I do hate is that people who are young, and healthy are using their health, and their children's to get a few measly dollars a month.

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