Thread: Rasmussen Poll: 71% Believe Most Welfare Recipients Unqualif

Rasmussen Poll: 71% Believe Most Welfare Recipients Unqualified

Monday, 22 Aug 2011 04:55 AM
By Hiram Reisner

Americans overwhelmingly believe that the biggest problem with the U.S. welfare system is there are too many recipients who do not qualify to be on the rolls rather than not enough. Most also think legal immigrants should have to wait at least three years before being eligible for welfare benefits.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 71 percent of American adults say the bigger problem with welfare programs in the United States is that too many people get welfare who should not. Just 18 percent say the bigger issue is that too many people who should receive welfare do not get it, while another 11 percent are not sure.

The national survey of 1,000 adults was conducted on August 16-17, 2011; the margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points.
Republicans, 91 percent, and adults not affiliated with either political party, 70 percent, believe much more strongly than Democrats, 51 percent, that the bigger problem with welfare is that too many ineligible people are on the rolls.

Fifty-nine percent of all Americans also think immigrants who follow the law and enter the United States legally should have to wait three years or more before collecting welfare benefits, including 31 percent who believe they should wait more than five years. Seventeen percent think three years is enough, while 11 percent prefer a five-year waiting period.

Fourteen percent think one year is an appropriate waiting period for legal immigrants to be eligible for welfare, but 16 percent believe there should be no wait at all; 11 percent are undecided.

http://www.newsmax.com/US/Rasmussen-wel ... /id/408116

And they need to pass a drug test. If you can afford drugs, you don't need welfare.

Dixie

The SOP here is if it's obvious the applicant is a recent arrival to the city and they check the box 'Are you an American citizen?' yes, and they have a utility bill with their name and address then THEY'RE QUALIFIED!

No follow ups about anything, income, marital status, number of dependents, not one damn thing to prevent abuse.

Oh but if it's obvious you're an actual American you have to bend over for a rectal exam.

Originally Posted by Dixie

And they need to pass a drug test. If you can afford drugs, you don't need welfare.

Dixie

I agree on this too.I see and know people here that are taking in wefare and bragging about it with nothing wrong with them.This is whats killing the system along with illegals getting it that never pay into it.

No follow ups about anything, income, marital status, number of dependents, not one damn thing to prevent abuse.

I know from experience they all say they are living alone with no dad around. They also live with extended families and pretend to be living alone too!

WE NEED CALLS HERE PLEASE

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