The abuse of welfare

This week we offered a plan to end welfare as we know it—a plan that will encourage personality and help strengthen our families through tougher child support, more education and training, and an absolute requirement to go to work after a period of time.” -Bill Clinton, radio address, 6/18/94




Friedman touches on the concept of good fat and bad fat in his book. Good fat is considered to be programs such a s social security. Examples of bad fat is welfare. TOday many people are abusing the system of welfare and are encouraging people to work less or not at all in some sense.

So i decided to talk about the abuse of welfare in our country. Initially welfare was initiated by President Roosevelt as a system that would helped financially challenged families or individuals.Eligibility is determined using gross and net income, size of the family, and any crisis situation such as medical emergencies, pregnancy, homelessness or unemployment. Previos research done on the abuse of welfare showed people tended to provide solely on welfare because the check was more than a regular minimum wage check.

IN order to reduce, the abuse of welfare, many rules and regulations needs to be enforced and implemented. For example, people should be required to look for jobs and have copies of their bills and their gross monthly income sent to welfare offices. Also the amount of children should also be reported accurately and not falsely. One of my biggest peeves with people on the welfare system, is parents use the govermnet aided to buy cigarettes, drugs, luxury items and top notch electronics. None of the aid is used to provide for their children but only used for their selfish purposes.

In awake of the Hurricane Katrina disaster one predominantly known republican set out a stand for changes in welfare and as well as new plans. I feel this is quite an interesting video.