Incredibly:

Welfare provides the equivalent of an hourly pretax wage of $14.75 in New York City, $12.45 in Philadelphia, $11.35 in Baltimore, and $10.90 in Detroit. For the hard-core welfare recipient, the value of the full range of welfare benefits substantially exceeds the amount the recipient could earn in an entry-level job. As a result, recipients are likely to choose welfare over work, thus increasing long-term dependence.

For those who live outside the reach of mass transit, the minimum wage is basically a joke. Also figure in car payments, yearly registration, maintenance, repairs, and gas.

Now, let me ask you a question. When these people have a choice to pick either working or welfare, what do you think they will choose? Then they have 10 kids, at the taxpayers expense, who grow up to be uneducated an often criminals (incarcerated at taxpayers expense) who follow their parents life style and on it goes.

This is the reason that the government is failing the "poor" and causing them to remain in their misery. Money thrown at the problem is making it worse.

Well,considering Welfare is figured at the lowest possible amount that a person can live on,or rather survive on, then what does that tell us about minimum wage?

"This is the reason that the government is failing the "poor" and causing them to remain in their misery. Money thrown at the problem is making it worse."

I'm sure you have a more viable solution than having money available for other people to be able to exist.

Is it really a bad idea to give up some money for human life, regardless of how you personally value that life?

And since when did the average person on welfare have 10 kids? Get a grip on some facts please.

Please!

When I was 9 years old, I got my first job. I cannot imagine where I would be today if some welfare worker came up to me back then and told me I did not have to work but could collect welfare and sit around waiting on my checks.

Helping people in real need is good, but giving money to people who can work will ruin them.

OK, I will compromise on the kids. How about 5? I hope you don't think they go childless because they cannot afford it, do you? Not as long as you are paying the bills.