Money that works provides more for families than borrowed money. Money cannot continue to be unfairly distributed from productive Americans to Americans who refuse to be constructive. Americans need to focus on the long-term effects of welfare. People depend on available programs to survive. What are we teaching our future generations, to rely on someone else? According to _ in February 2016 alone, over one hundred and forty million dollars were spent on SNAP/Food Stamps; however, this was only in Tennessee. Welfare recipients are taking advantage of many aids and programs that should benefit other families or children in crisis. Growing up there were five of us in the family. I have no problem with taxpayer money being used to help families in crisis. There were three children, my father and stepmother; however my father was the only source of income for our family; so my father had to pay not only his own expenses, but also those of four other family members. Welfare recipients need to think about this on only a small spectrum of how this might affect a family