It’s important to define what the purpose of our public assistance programs are supposed to serve. For example, if a worker suffers a disabling injury after years of productive work, it would be reasonable for such a person to be able to draw benefits from the disability insurance into which he or she paid by mandatory payroll check deductions.
The same goes for those who lose their jobs due to no fault of their own. In fact, it would be a gross injustice to mandate by law that employers and employees pay into various funds only to deny benefits to workers who truly qualify.
That these benefit programs have gotten out of hand is beyond doubt. But the idea that those who pay into insurance plans should be able to draw benefits if truly deserving is sound.
On the other hand, awarding government benefits to immigrants, especially those who just arrived in the country is an abuse of our public assistance systems. More than that, it encourages those in other countries who are struggling to come to America just to get on the welfare rolls. In a sense, this amounts to stealing benefits from deserving Americans.
Mr. Trump has just announced that he wants to put an end to this abusive practice, which should, in itself, take away some of the desire from those who would quickly become welfare leeches from entering our country.
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no welfare for illegals
How in hell do they deserve welfare this is total bull$#%&!@*they refuse to work in America you refuse to work no welfare so why is it ok for these Muslim$#%&!@*holes
snowflake alert
crying like a 5 year old wont help
I take it you don’t work.
I was referring more about Muslims.
WTFC. …
Hope the congress goes along with this and makes it a law! People just flock here because of the free stuff! There are still people here that want free stuff..we can not afford it and it isn’t any fair to the ones that have paid into it that really need it! We need to take care of our own first!
I would arrest that$#%&!@*w/ the sign that says they will shoot more police. I would deport him at 10,000 feet.