It's a matter of fact that those who are poor tend to typically lower IQ. You can dispute this all you want, but facts are facts. I think we ought to treat the poor who collect welfare with more rigor and give them more attention. I think there needs to be an end to the neoliberal ways of throwing money at them and expecting them to have a clue with what to do with it.
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When you're on welfare, you should accept a cut in financial freedom in return for assistance. National economies have to meet a certain criteria for getting aid and/or loans. Why shouldn't the poor? Welfare should be a tool for learning and paving the way for preventative measures. I could liken the individual to an economy of an African banana republic. Unless you take the leap to meet certain conditions, you should be ineligible for welfare.
We ought to control the spending of those on welfare. They're poor because they have no money management ability. Why do we continue to just give them money when it doesn't help? I think it's shocking that beneficiary parents are given the liberty to buy drugs with public money while children have to go without food. Why aren't we controlling their spending habits?
The best way to control their spending is by direct targeting of welfare. Food stamps are a great example of a streamlined welfare programme with very little abuse. There are certain eftpos-like cards that work for certain goods and services. We should deploy that to those who demonstrate they have the mental capacity to handling of their own finances.
Why aren't we more stringent towards the poor's treatment of public housing? They're allowed to move into a house, trash it, then get rewarded with another one where the cycle repeats. There's no respect for the property of others. If you destroy more expensive welfare like public housing, you should be homeless on the streets. There are plenty of good properties, publicly owned, that have been plagued by individuals who destroy entire blocks. That is a roof that could and should be going to a mother fleeing an abusive situation with her children.
I can't stand the lack of push to not get a job. Inter-generational illiteracy, unemployment and reliance on the state. We should be pushing to get people off welfare as soon as possible. If there isn't the jobs at the lower-end, we should be training them up in apprenticeships or getting them involved in some form of workfare.
There are legitimate cases for welfare for those naturally unlucky. We can and should still target to help their needs directly. The crippled deserve direct help. Fortunately, the status quo does this already. There doesn't need to be any specific widespread change in this area.
I believe we need to be controlling the poor on welfare. They don't deserve the same amount of economic freedom as someone who earns their income. Their economic liberties should be sacrificed in exchange for assistance.
I don't think they need to controlled but all of their welfare programs need to be greatly limited. Food stamps should only cover basic foods, nothing prepackaged, no snacks. Just straight up cheap ass bread, rice, beans, fresh veggies/fruit and the cheapest cuts of meat. The government could offer some sort of mandatory cooking class for those who want to sign up for food stamps.
And don't get me started on their free medical shit. I work with a dude that goes to the ER for EVERYTHING. Last week he went to the ER because his belly hurt (he skipped out on work to do it). The doctors fucking told the guy it was gas! He went in because he may have had slight discomfort and needed to fucking fart! My point is that a lot of these people are to fucking stupid to realize what constitutes a real medical emergency, but because it's free, they will head over to the doctor because of every little ache or pain, wasting the hospitals time and tax payer dollars. That free medical shit needs to be limited to real emergencies only, broken bones and real problems not some simple things just because they have some slight discomfort. Meanwhile, a Navy veteran I know has to jump through hoops just to get the proper medical care he needs. Even for an ER visit he needs to call up veteran affairs, wait for a nurse to respond, then sign off on the visit. It's utter bullshit how we treat our vets worse than lazy poor people.