Should Welfare Be Limited with Time

Should Welfare be Limited with Time Picture this, you’re in the grocery store and you have budgeted yourself down to the last dime. You then think how hard you have worked for two weeks and you’re already low on cash because you had to pay rent, utilities, and other necessary bills. In front of you is standing a woman with a grocery cart full of groceries. You wonder how she can afford all that with the way prices are up. Then she pulls out a card, which looks like a debit card and tells the clerk food stamps. Once the transaction has gone through she pulls out a $50 dollar bill to pay for her remaining purchase, which you realize is a pack of cigarettes and beer. Does this anger you to know that the taxes that are taken out of your hard earned check goes to a welfare recipient, who has more cash than you and all they do is sit around doing nothing? If so then you are not alone. By the end of this paper, the definition of welfare, my opinion on the limitations that should be in place, and a solution, will be clearly stated. What is welfare? Welfare is a public assistance program that provides at least a minimum amount of economic security to people whose incomes are inadequate to maintain an adequate standard of living. These programs generally include such benefits as financial aid to individuals, subsidized medical care, and stamps that are used to purchase food. The current U.S. welfare system dates back to the Great Depression of the 1930’s. More than two-thirds of all households would have been considered poor by today's standards. With a majority of the capable adult population experiencing severe financial misfortune, many Americans turned to the government for answers. (fair.org) Welfare, whether you collect it, or you pay for it, most citizens of our country are familiar with it. The most visible and most cost-inefficient segment of the U.S. welfare system today is Aid for Dependent Children or AFDC. AFDC began in 1935 as a little-noticed part of the

Cited: Besharov, Douglas. “Two Cheers for American Welfare Reform” Online U.S News and World Reports. Online < usnews.com> Wikipedia Foundation.inc http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_definition_of_economics