Originally Posted by BonzoAPD
Mike you are not getting what I am saying. I am saying that if these people can pay bills to pay for luxury items, they should not be on welfare.
Welfare money should be used for the necessities only.
To repeat:
Welfare is not what allows people to buy luxury items, credit is. You'd be amazed how bad your credit can be and you can still get nice things.
Lending institutions are in the business of making money. They extend credit to people because they want to make a profit, even if those people can't afford to pay those bills.
Welfare doesn't magically give them the ability to pay those bills. They instead take on all kinds of debt because they want to have nice things even though they can't afford it.
The same is true for people both on and off welfare programs. It just so happens that the people on welfare programs are getting some help for the necessities of life. Having nice things does not equate to having money. The whole point is that credit, not welfare, is what allows people that do not have money to get things anyway.
If you don't want people with no money to have nice things, then you're just going to have to take that up with the lenders.