The old/new system

On washingtonpost.com The old system was often criticized for granting benefits to people who didn't deserve them – and should instead have been working. But the new system creates the distinct possibility that people who do deserve assistance will be denied it. And because most public assistance goes to families, many of the victims would inevitably be children.

Standardization, for all its drawbacks, also ensured a certain kind of blind fairness. In the new system, there is so much discretion involved that civil-rights activists wonder whether minorities and people with drug problems will be dealt with fairly, and whether people with legitimate reasons for not being able to work will nevertheless be cut off from assistance.

I think the new system could be improving. Maybe just maybe their finally being strict on whose getting the money. But seriously, like the article states, people who do need the money are being denied unlike the old system the ones who didn't need it got it. The majority of money does go to people with children and if it was up to me i would give the biggest part to the children. I know that sounds bad but recently i learned about how kids go home on the weekends from school not having anything to eat, so the school started this program for every friday they fill up a backpack with little foods kids can eat. And stuff for them to do like coloring books and such.

Then again older people who cant afford much and are too weak to work. I know my papaw is 64 years old and he is a very weak man. It's been years since i seen him out working and doing anything because older people do get and stay sick a lot. Im not sure exactly how to get hte government to look more into that and there probably really isnt a way to get them too but to me i think if you get beyond a certain age and arent able to work that you should get money from welfare. i just think its fair and its helping the people in need.