"The government's only source of money is taxes. This is why all government welfare is immoral, unethical, and unconstitutional, it is just the forced redistributing wealth from a person that earned it, to a person that did not. Theft is defined as the forced redistribution of wealth, it is a crime in every human culture. But for some reason people keep electing politicians that promise to commit this crime....it boggles the mind."

This quote has no academic source and is written by a person who made a comment on a YouTube video that was talking about how drug testing welfare participants has turned out to be a waste of money. The link to that video is : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Red4FsBiQI4
But these words by this American who seems to be against welfare made me think:

HOW MUCH DO TAX PAYERS ACTUALLY CONTRIBUTE TO WELFARE?
At first I wanted to find information that contradicted this persons thought because I actually believe in helping the needy, and no matter what taxes are never going to go away, so regardless if our tax money goes to welfare or the government uses it for something else, we will be taxed until the day we die... but the issue I guess with this individual and the issue that I can understand and agree with , is are we contributing some of our tax money to people that are well capable of working but dont ?

I found an article that explained a couple of things that I was very well miss informed of...


http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1676
"Each year, approximately 143 million federal income tax returns are filed in the United States. Of these, about 58 million have no tax liability after taking deductions and credits, leaving roughly 85 million people to shoulder the nation's entire federal income tax burden. It is these 85 million people who fund the $746 billion federal portion of the nation's total welfare spending. On average, each of them spends $8,776 to keep federal welfare programs afloat. 

As of January 2009, only four of the 80+ federal welfare programs in existence had work requirements for their recipients; the Obama Administration subsequently suspended those requirements in two of the four programs. Most notable was its elimination of the provision in the 1996 welfare reform legislation (known as the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act) requiring that after three months on food stamps, able-bodied adult recipients with no children must become engaged in some kind of work activity for a minimum of 20 hours per week in order to remain eligible for assistance. The termination of this requirement caused the number of healthy, childless food-stamp beneficiaries to double, from 1.9 million to 3.9 million. All told, the total number of food stamp recipients nationwide reached 46.7 million by 2012—up from about 32 million in 2008."

This is it, I think that this is the only problem that people want to change about welfare, the fact that even single childless individuals who are not handicapped are not required to work when receiving food stamps

SO WHAT WERE OBAMAS INTENTIONS OR IDEAS BEHIND GOING AGAINST THE 1996 WELFARE REFORM?