The Same Rights As American Citizens

Thousands of people are signed up to receive welfare in America, this program is designed to aid poor and needy families. However, it has become some people’s way of earning an income. Several argue against and say that welfare is not destroying our country and creating a dependent people who have learned to abuse certain privileges that come with living in this nation.

The article "Flat Broke with Children" Sharon Hays gave a lot of insight about what people think of welfare. She took the opinions of people using welfare and also the people not using welfare. Welfare has helped many in the united states. Most that are on welfare think of it as a security blanket. Times do get rough and life does happen.

Today our welfare programs give out too much money and the systems need to be reformed again. In 1996 The Welfare Reform Act was enacted and it changed the entire program for the better. However, since then, the programs have become abused and need to be reformed again. Many of the people that receive state or federal funding have more luxury items than the average middle class family. The government should check-in on the families that are receiving assistance to make sure they actually need the assistance. The government should also place more stipulations on the various welfare programs in the state. There are several people all across the country that are abusing the system that was put in place to help get people survive in a time of

The presupposition that undocumented immigrants should receive the same rights as American citizens are a categorical truth. Although some advocates against undocumented immigration would argue that they have overpopulated our nation, these romantic critics are too dogmatic in their provincial ideology. Everyone has the human rights and have the authority to enter to the country without being deported. People should know the reasons why immigrants come to America before deporting them. More than 11 million immigrants are undocumented in America and about 800,000 immigrants come to America each year. These immigrants come to America because they want to escape persecution and seek new opportunities.

Welfare has been around for than six decades. Since the beginning of its creation people have question whether the programs offered is helping the community. As American taxpayer's, your funds contribute to welfare for others. Due to the large number of members who receives government assistants, it is not that simple to monitor every individual. But, I propose that welfare should be reformed. Society is abusing the access to social welfare and to change the downfall sure to come, the government needs to reform the accessibility and ownership of welfare because it defiles the reason why it was formed, it is creating a dependent nation, and effects taxpayers and people who really need government assistance.

The government in the United States needs to realize that the welfare program is only a burden to our country. Welfare is only shown to be fiscally unsustainable the total amount the government spends on welfare comes out to nearly six hundred sixty eight billion dollars per year. That is sixteen times the amount they spent in the 1960’s and yet the poverty rate still remains almost the same. For those people who are using this program or for the people who support it this number may not mean anything but for all the hard working Americans that work hard for a living it must place a lot of pressure and anger on them. To think

Advocates of the current welfare system approve that many citizens in poverty have a need for aid from their state. Adversaries, however, understand the system involves taxpayers to pay for the unsuccessful programs, and leaves the poor on a platform that destroys opportunities for them. Today, over a third of Americans now receive some type aid, with an average of $9,000 per person totaling nearly $1 trillion in taxpayer dollars annually. Taxpayers have financed almost $20 trillion in welfare spending since the 1960s.

By requiring people on welfare to work, and assisting them to get low-paying jobs if nothing else, the state and local governments give the people incentive to get better paying jobs and keep them. I read an article once that showed the correlation between government-assisted welfare workers and full-time permanent employment of those same workers later. I firmly believe that people will help and support themselves if given a decent chance. This country is founded on the idea of self-sufficiency. We are taught this in the public schools from the first day. We are trained not to cheat, not to steal answers from another person's paper, and not to depend on others to do our work for us. It seems to be an innate human quality that people want to rely on upon themselves and achieve goals on their own. When people who are down on their luck are given a helping hand, often they will move from

Welfare should not be reformed because it helps single parents. 40 percent of single mothers are poor, 12 million single parents-mother-headed families are poor (Freeman). Welfare can help keep these single parent families stay stable to be an effective families. 12 million single parents mothers headed families can be reduced to less underachieving families with the assistants of welfare. Also with single parents they never had an significant other.

In the United States there are “over 100 million people receiving some form of federal welfare” (Munoz#7). The purpose of creating the welfare system was to provide aid to those families with “little to no income” (article 1). Back in 1996 Clinton passed the welfare reform act; allowing state full control of the welfare system. The Welfare Reform Act was to help steer welfare

The extensive amount the government spends on welfare could easily be spent on more productive things. Not only that, but more has been spent on the war on poverty than the combined cost of all American wars ever. Which considering those go all the way back to the Revolutionary War, that is an absolute disgrace to this country and its citizens. All of this government spending gives people significant incentive to stay on welfare (3). Welfare is meant to be a temporary necessity, not a way of life. With the government money and state money combined, 10.3 trillion is disbursed on welfare (Bandow 2). It is estimated that welfare spending will increase from five to six percent GPA by the end of the decade (Gaiser 2). That is a preposterous amount and there is no reason for our country to spend so much money supporting people who choose not to work. Society would be a better place if people would put in an actual effort in life and not collect the money of those who

As I talked about previously there are certain stereotypes of welfare recipients, some true, many not. A lot of American citizens believe all those stereotypes to be true, and therefore, a great majority of public opinion is against welfare programs. In return, this drives political officials away from helping people who rely government aid and in a lot of circumstances when officials are involved it is to reduce that aid, not give them a voice. “Policies that have determent impacts on, or are ineffective in solving important problems for, certain types of target populations may not produce citizen participation directed toward policy change because the messages received by these target populations encourage withdrawal or passivity” (Schneider,

United States Government Welfare began in the 1930’s during the Great Depression. Franklin D. Roosevelt thought of this system as an aid for low-income families whose men were off to war, or injured while at war. The welfare system proved to be beneficial early on by giving families temporary aid, just enough to help them accommodate their family’s needs. Fast forward almost 90 years, and it has become apparent that this one once helpful system, has become flawed. Welfare itself and the ideologies it stands on, contains decent fundamentals; furthermore, this system of aid needs only to be reformed to better meet the needs of today’s society.

The welfare programs need to reform and focus on helping all of the lower income class get out of that class and remove those who are abusing the system. They need to stop the process of homelessness before it happens because it’s hard to give an address when someone no longer have one and now living on the streets. Which will make the process cost more than it should have to begin with had welfare step in and help before one becomes homeless. They need to remove abusers from the system and take into the concentration of the ones who are prescribed medication by a doctor and none abusers. Welfare, though it can be good, is abused by many lower class people and is too easily obtained for those merely looking for a way to be lazy and are avoiding getting a job. Welfare needs to create a way for those using the service to feel like they are a part of helping by working for it to stop laziness and feeling of it being a free hand out because that will not help them in the long run. “Low and irregular employment is a major reason why low-income men

Throughout history, there have always been people willing to work for what they want, and those who expect things to be handed to them as if it was a natural-born right. While the welfare system does positively impact some families in need, many people take advantage of it. With this being a well known fact, the government still continues to use ten percent of the federal budget on welfare (“Budget” 1).