only 1 year. This is a disgrace. Tucson, AZ says: End welfare and the problem will take care of itself. Welfare is a form of enabling and stops people from standing on their own 2 feet. If you are hungry and need a place to stay... then you will need a job... and you will want to keep that job or something better so that you can eat and pay the rent. If someone just gives you money for doing nothing... Then you take advantage of that... because you are lazy and never amount to anything. Get rid of welfare and people will develope a work ethic because they will have to. Priscila Souza says: I'm sad to say, but most of the black people on welfare don't want a job...they want easy life....and we are providing them that! Claudia Kretzer says: People would stop being lazy and have less kids when in actuallity you and I are paying for them! People would have to start working for a change... of course lowlifes too lazy to work would likely start robbing those who did work...... I do believe it is right to help the truly needy; the widow, the orphan, the handicapped, etc... but there are too many folks that just have led in their back pockets..... Something has got to change. I'm tired of paying for able bodied people to sit at home and have all the kids they want with no consequences. I guess if we got rid