IMO, the whole system basically needs to be abolished, but it can’t be cold turkey.
As part of accepting subsidies, there should be financial counseling to teach people how to budget, although from the attitude of most welfare recipients, they’ll pretend to go along with it, play the victim (they’re great actors) and then bad mouth those who are trying to help them and not make any changes.
The entitlement mentality among the welfare class is unbelievable.
But unfortunately there really are some honest folks out there who are not defrauding the system and are really down on their luck at no fault of their own and truly do need it.
But here is a perspective... What we actually need to do first is improve the ECONOMY so that there are not so many folks needing help from the government. But see, this too is part of the plan to keep folks dependent on the government. This is why they purposely and methodically keep our economy unaffordable.
We have to keep in mind that even here on the FR there are good people who worked hard all their lives who have no choice but to also get some assistance because SS is just not enough alone. Some are making less than a thousand dollars a month at a time when a one bedroom apartment runs and average of 1,200 dollars or more. Especially those who were homemakers all their lives trying to get by as a widow on only part of their late husbands SS. They have absolutely no choice but to get SNAP to offset rent, utilities, Etc.
I have thought about this a LOT. And I have talked to a lot of folks right here who are actually in that position over the years and not by choice. The “one size fits all” approach just does not always fit like we think it should.
Those who are fortunate never consider those who are unfortunate. Because they can “make it” they subconsciously think “If I can then everybody can” when it is actually just not true in the real world.