Welfare

Welfare When it was originally conceived during a time of economic distress, the welfare program supplied aid to those in need. Welfare aid was received primarily by widowed and divorced mothers, and it served as a cushion to break their fall into a different lifestyle, so that they could get back on their feet and walk on there own with the intent to get there life on track. However today it has come to serve as a paycheck for irresponsible Americans. Welfare is like patching a water main with duct tape; you have to constantly make sure that you keep putting more tape on it to keep it in check, I believe. Welfare programs should show the poor they must learn to fish for themselves if recipients are ever going to work again to support themselves. With this in mind, we must change our welfare system. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt said: “I can now see the end of public assistance in America.” FDR’s declaration did not come true considering the amounts of money the federal government was giving out to the poor. The sums were intended to give the needy a boost that would theoretically start the poor towards economic success. That didn’t work. Since then, and over the past 25 welfare, work, poor, recipients, themselves, since, must, keep, back, women, without, today, times, said, public, often, make, going, come, change, assistance, americans, walk, true, track, time, thus, tape, system, support, start, show, should, serve, programs, problems