All I have to say on the welfare issue is that my father is in the emergency services and regularly gets called to places where, "welfare rats" people who live off of the welfare and nothing else, lives most of the places are like pigs stys he says. The people in them have fancy T.V.'s the newest game systems and everything else, but they just live in their own filth and everything else there is nothing physically wrong with them and they could work tomorrow if they got off of their asses, but they don't. This pisses me off incredibly because my grandmother recently went through a divorce with my grandfather (wasn't really close with the grandfather myself anyway) and she highly diabetic and takes at least 4 pills a day just for that, because my grandfather was quite old school my grandmother doesn't have a car or a liscense or anything else. She applied for assistance to get a new roof on her house as she needed it and was turned down because she didn't make enough money of all the possible reasons, she was on welfare, at the time because she didn't work. She went out to find herself a job, she now works at an assisted living/nursing home and all is going well for the most part... But what irks me is that people who are young will just live off of this "free money" while people actually go out and bust their asses to try and better their situation only to pay for these free loaders to live the way they do... The main point there is to say, people who live off of welfare piss me right off because I know several people who go out and work their asses off to try and better their situation while others just sit there and in the end just take the money said people worked so hard for, and all they did was sit on their ass. What needs to be done is for it not to be welfare but for it to be a rehabilitation type thing, anyone on it who isn't infirmed, ill or anything major should be put into programs which help them to obtain jobs instead of just allowing them to sit on their asses. The unfortunate truth of it though, is that for the goverment it is cheaper to pay them their monthly check than it is for them to turn them into productive citizens.