Should people be ashamed to be on welfare programs?

If you make it easy to be poor? I interpret that to mean that people are forced into poverty.
When you have to choose between heating and food that is poverty, when you have to make do and have limited education and work prospects that is poverty. Poverty in wealthy countries may not be same as in developing countries, but it is still poverty. What is needed to help people out of poverty is education and prospects and a equal footing for aspirations and talents. It is not just the wealthy who have good ideas. Some people spend most of their life struggling they never get the chances some take for granted.
They say these days you are a couple of pay packets away from a welfare payment, there is no such thing as a job for life these days. No body who ever they are really wants to be on welfare, no one wants to be dependent on the state, and if they say they do, they have given up or are lying. The thing is some people have no choice and some have limited options they have to claim welfare, I for one are not going to ridicule or blame them for that.
In the UK at the moment the focus is on people on welfare and demonising people on benefits, and it is obscene. People on disability benefits are being disallowed benefits because some bureaucrat has said they are fit for work. May be some people can work, but where are the jobs. It is a diversion the Government are picking on a easy target to shift the blame or attention to some where else so people don't focus or get angry with them. But it looks like there tactics are backfiring, the Government are shooting themselves in the foot. Seems people who are poor are a easy target and when you going to hear what the poor think, may be you will hear selective media comments, but seems I am so sick of hearing people bash the poor for being poor, they do that because they have no ideas for helping them. It makes me uncomfortable to hear people describe others by their race or colour as 'those people', why is it ok to talk the same for those from another social class.

NO! But then there are varibles to the question. Sitution, cause, and effect to mention three.

Situation; due to inflation, the Idea that the stockmarket will make one rich, and the agenda of the U.S. government must considered. Actually, the reason for many people to be on welfare is the fact that the minum wadge, which is too low to compete with the inflation creating unions and job losses may be the chief reason that many people are forced on to it since 2008.

When I joined the military at 85 dollars a month (my highest wage was 584 dollars as a sargeant with 6 years in rank), the national poverty level was at 11 t0 12,000 dollars for a single person. Today it is 16,755 dollars on yearly income. The rate today for married couples is 22,695 dollars, which is stated as "after ajustment for inflation".

Personnel resources ia set at 13,070 dollars for an individual, and 26,695 dollars for married couples. Combined that would be 29,875 dollars, and 49,390 respectively.

Cause; to this the answer is, an economy melt down. However there is a problem here. If people are losing their jobs, and Gas has raised to over 4 dollars in most places, what kind of math is being used here? well, thats easy to answer, the government, thats who. According to their math the best way to restore the economy is to raise prices while many, 8 to 10 % (by unemploment checks) has lost their jobs and their income is zero.

As to Effect; well, if people can't figure that out and fix the problem, they deserve exactly what they get.