How common are "welfare bums"?

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I don't know how many there are but everyone has their own opinions about it. Of course there are people that think if you have to go on welfare, you need to sell everything first and to me that is so stupid and I am not doing that just so I can sit at home and stare at he wall and sleep on the floor and sit on it too. Besides what if it's only temporary? And some people consider unemployment, WIC, foodtstamps, medicaid as welfare.


I cannot grasp why someone would want to go on welfare so they wouldn't have to work because they barely give you any money and you can't live a luxurious life that way either. Plus you sure can't buy whatever you want like games and movies and anew game system or a new flat screen TV or a nice new car. Plus no way would you be able to afford a nice home. Sure there are programs out there that give low income people housing and there are foodstamps and medicaid. I do know a family that is on it and both parents are disabled and they are on welfare but they have a nice home they rent and they are on foodtstamps and they have a van too. But I have no opinion about them being on it because I don't know their situation well for me to judge. They do have a computer and video games too and lots of movies but we all can't expect them to not have anything and have them stare at the wall and sleep on floors and eat on floors.

More than Liberals want you to think, less than Conservatives want you to think.

I don't know how common they are, but it's something that needs to be discouraged.

In Norway it is very common.

Mainly what people are talking about when they say "welfare bums" are people who go on welfare, foodstamps, find a way to get disability etc, and sell drugs to make their actual money. It's not that uncommon.

Here is a scenario. Guy gets a job and has a "back injury" which are notoriously hard to diagnose or prove or disprove. Many times, doctors use range of motion to diagnose that and MRI etc doesn't always show something even with legitimate injuries. He gets disability. He also gets medicaid and food stamps and welfare. Maybe he hooks up with a woman with kids so you can add her food stamps and welfare to that. They have seperate official addresses but live together and pool their resources. Then the dude starts selling weed. That's where he makes his actual money. They use the government money for things like bills, rent (if they aren't in the projects) etc. There is a huge amount of money to be made just selling weed. If he decides to step up his game and sell blow, then he's really got the cash coming in.

That's the typical "welfare bum"

Then again, there are some welfare bums who could work but choose not to take a job that they feel is beneath them, doesn't pay them what they feel they are worth, nor "challange" them enough, even though the job would provide them with the money to live without having to rely on tax dollars.

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Over at the store I work at, a lot of the people on food stamps have jobs, because they come in and buy food in work clothes. I guess they're not making enough to eat, so they supplement with EBT. My mom used to be on foodstamps too when she was single, and I'm glad they were available. Welfare isn't something that should be a permanent solution, just something to keep people from killing each other over food during times of recession.