Quote Originally Posted by Gandalf View Post
I'm somewhat in the middle on this.

I'm not against a welfare state and people are only human. You cannot guarantee a father figure will stick around, you cannot promise someone a job until retirement. You need safety nets for those people.

However, you cannot just abuse the system. 15 children is obviously a joke and shouldn't have been allowed. That is where I am less in the middle.

I'm not against a welfare state though. I grew up on the welfare state. However, in doing so, I determined that I would not put anyone else through it. It's not a fun way to grow up.
Understood, but originally welfare was for TEMPORARY help to get people back on their feet, to get them to a place where they could provide for their families. But now people live on it, they just accept the benefits of it without shame, without remorse, and they like this lady have the gall to demand MORE, not because they provide anything that benefits society but just simply because they ARE. The since of entitlement in the United States is at epidemic levels and it needs to be cut out like a cancer.

I belong to groups who help the needy and less fortunate I help these people of my own free will. Not with taxpayer money, not with funds the government has pillaged from other citizens, but with my OWN funds and that is the way it should work. Neighbor should help neighbor of their own free will and I believe there would be less of a since of entitlement and that families would stick together, and that people wouldn't come to depend on the help but rather get to the point where they help themselves. Perhaps that's a little too altruistic to work, but that's how I feel.