"God bless America. They'll give you a hand out before they'll give you a job.."?

The above quote is from the movie The War. How many of you think that it is true?

Also, I live in south/east Kentucky, and sadly poverty is very abundant here. But what I don't get is this: I see hard workers all the time, working double shifts and barely making enough money to put food on the table. I also see lazy people, not even working but are living in the big time because the government will support them. However, when the person who works hard but still isn't making enough goes to the government for a little help they don't give it to them. Sure, they might give them $30 a month for food stamps (at most)....but they give the person who is just too sorry around $600 a month on food stamps. How is the system that messed up?

I agree. I think it is a crime that there are people in America who work everyday, have children, try to live a nice life and are the working poor. And they have less than those folks who are getting help from the government. I do have a solution. I think everyone who gets help should be working for us, the people, doing whatever they are capable of. Child care should be provided and work should be mandatory to get $. All I know is that back around WWII, FDR put together programs, I think the TVA, etc, but men went to work building bridges and working on the infrastructure. We are told are bridges are obsolete and need to be replaced.. Why not? There is a great workforce. There are 10 zillion menial jobs that could also be done-pick up the trash along the roadside, clean and fix up parks etc. and for those physically challenged-perhaps filing, whatever depending on abilities. It should be very difficult to be on any type of welefare and not be working and very difficult to stay on it. And the other problem-all the abusers of the system. We need to boot them off of it. We need to come up with a working system rather than enabling people to be unproductive member of society.

your a smart cookie:) lick lick!
Blame the liberals... they are the ones in favor of welfare and government handouts... it if wasn't for gov. programs like that, taxes would be a lot lower and the people who work hard would have more money in their pay checks...
You are so right. This system burns my *** up.
I blame the politicians (both parties) who neglect the blue collar worker for big business (republicans) and the politicians who neglect the blue collar worker for the lazy individuals who want freebies (democrats).
You are so right!!!

If you come to this country as an immigrant illegal or not, you are given free housing, free medical, free education, free loans, AND YOU DON'T HAVE TO PAY ANY TAXES FOR 7 YEARS!!!

But let a citizen go and ask for a little help and they make you jump through all kinds of hoops, go to useless job classes and fill out tons of paperwork for $30.00 worth of food stamps.

Americans really need to wakeup!!!
well it looks like you got a whole lot of time on your hands to observe all these hard workers and those lazy sob's are you one of those getting the 30$ food stamps or the 500$ food stamps? my guess would be the one getting the 500$ food stamps but than again if you where why would you be wining here about it.