How the welfare system needs to be fixed?

[Daniel]

First of all, I vote Democrat and I do support these social programs to some extent, but I can't stand people who do nothing and expect government handouts. It's worse when some families are on welfare for generations, and some of them have no incentive to work or at least get an education. Something else that bothers me is how some don't manage their money and blow it off on unnecessary things; they spend all the money and wait for the next handout, for fear the government will give them less money if they save it, and sometimes have more kids just to get more welfare. But these are just the few that abuse the system, I still hope that many people who are on welfare truly need it.

Solutions? I'll admit that I did vote for Obama, yet I did agree with Romney on a few things, I just agreed with Obama on more issues. One thing I did like was drug testing for welfare, that everybody on welfare should be drug tested at least twice a year, or be actively looking for employment; if they are found to be using drugs, have the welfare cut off. I used to think people got a wad of cash for welfare, apparently they get a type of debit card now? If they get these cards, shouldn't there be some central monitoring system that tracks all purchases made by the card? What about limiting the card to only necessities, such as food at the market and banning their use for unnecessary luxuries such as designer clothes/items, iPhones, expensive cars, movie tickets, clubs, casinos, upscale restaurants, cigarettes, liquor, etc. There should also be no ATM option, so people can't cheat the system:

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/wel...es-casinos
Even though I don't agree with the Republicans on many things, I agree with this:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/01...46867.html
Yeah, Romney did flip flop on his positions and all, that's part of what led me to distrust him and vote Obama instead, I know the man has lied and broken many promises but I'm still hoping he is able to bring about the change he promised over these next 4 years in office.

$300 doesn't seem like much (some get more, some get less), but when you think about the sheer number of people on some kind of government assistance, Romney's 47% is overblown but I think close to 50 million Americans are on food stamps and about the same amount of people on medicaid, a large portion of welfare recipients, really more like a third of the US population and costs hundreds of billions of dollars.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/48898378/Record_4...ood_Stamps
http://money.cnn.com/2011/04/12/news/eco.../index.htm
That's the problem, too many people are comfortable with their situation and vote out any politician that tries to tighten regulations on welfare.