Welfare: Toil and TroubleMillions of Americans are signed up for welfare; the program designed toaid poor and needy families. Unfortunately, it has now become a way of life formany.
Many argue that welfare is not destroying our culture and creating adependent people who have learned to abuse certain privileges that come withliving in America, but history has proven that this is not true. Last August, when President Clinton signed the welfare reform bill, hesaid “Today, we are taking a historic chance to make welfare what it was meantto be: a second chance, not a way of life. ” Welfare was designed to give aboost to the poor-to help struggling families make it through the year whilethey got back on their feet. What it has become is a target for gluttonousmothers and others who have no values.
Many mothers who are on welfare havebecome used to it, and instead of using the money and aid to stay alive whilethey look for a job, they are sitting at home waiting by the mailbox for thenext check to come in. In the meantime, many mothers are having more kids,because-more kids, more welfare money. These women relish the thought ofgetting free money in the mail-for doing absolutely nothing. Welfare is destroying out culture.
Many argue that welfare is necessaryfor many families, and that it must not be cut. Some argue that it is givingstarving families the boost they need to make it one more year. This is onlypartially true. Yes, we need welfare, but we also need to limit the amount oftime a family can stay on it. By letting families stay on welfare for extendedperiods of time, we are only creating a lazy, dependent culture.
Mothers figurethat the welfare check will come in the mail, so where’s the motivation forgoing out and getting a job? There isn’t one. This is why President Clintonsigned the welfare reform bill. He knows that the welfare laws need to berefined, and he has chosen himself as the apostle for this chore. Many people are abusing welfare in more ways than one. The most commonform of welfare abuse is just staying on it too long, and using it as an income,instead of a boost.
There are worse cases, though, which clearly show the needfor reform. Many mothers are using welfare as an income, and using the moneyfor purposes other than survival. Many are using the money to buy drugs. Inevitably, these drugs lead to an even more destructive way of life. Many ofthese moms become even more promiscuous, having babies for the money that willbe added to her monthly check. Welfare is destroying our society.
It is creating and encouraging aslothful and idle culture, and it needs to stop. In the past, honest,hardworking people who just needed a push used welfare. Quickly though, welfarehas become something that too many depend on. Many of the families on welfareare poor and lazy. Satisfied with their monthly check, many of the recipientsuse it as their only form of income, and do nothing else.
The government isonly encouraging and enabling their idleness by paying these people to sitaround doing nothing. These people, if not for the welfare reform bill, wouldhave spent their lives avoiding work for as long as the government would allow,which is usually a lifetime. An example of this idleness is Eulalia Rodriquez. This Jezebel, who calls herself Rodriguez, has been on welfare for twenty-sixyears, has fourteen children on welfare, seventy-four grandchildren and fifteengreat-grandchildren. Rodriguez is sick of people criticizing her for being onpublic assistance.
“I’m sick of people acting like I’m some kind of crook. We’ve got a lot of kids to feed. ” She failed to mention the fact that she livesin a six-bedroom, three-story apartment nestled in a gated Boston communitycalled Harbor Point. What’s worse, these people even have the nerve to complain,whining about how the minimum wage is too low, and that the jobs offered have nodignity.
The nerve. Then there are the immigrants. Not the immigrants who come to Americalooking for freedom and a new life-I’m talking of the ones who invade ourbeaches and our borders, and head straight for the welfare sign up desk. Thesepeople suck up tax dollars from the honest and hard working, and give thesociety nothing in return. No more.
These people will all be cut off with thenew bill. The greedy mothers, the lazy families, the leeching immigrants-they allsignal that we need to change the system. So we begin anew. Starting over witha new plan, and a new attitude, destined to succeed, and not likely to fail.
No,it is not harsh or discriminating, and yes, it is very necessary.Business
