The Truth About the United States Welfare System
Almost one-third of the United States population receives assistance from at least one welfare program. The United States welfare system is flawed in many ways. One flaw in the system is the fact that people are using their government assistance money on things they don’t necessarily need. The government is giving benefits to people who use it on things like drugs or junk food, while others are starving on the streets without a penny to spare. We are also experiencing problems with school lunch programs, teen pregnancies, WIC, and VLFS. The United States citizens are finally beginning to realize the flaws and advantages being taken, and have started to take action.
Poverty makes up a very large portion of
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We shake our heads and wonder how such a thing could be possible. This is just one example of how some people take advantage of the welfare system. Hospital emergency rooms are being bombarded with people who are on welfare that come in with non-life threatening problems requiring staff to service them and then leave the bill for the taxpayers. Everyone is beginning to see the flaws in the programs. The United
States spent 18 billion dollars in the year 2000 with 17 million recipients. Moving forward sixteen years, the price has risen to 78 billion dollars and we now have 46 million recipients. Either more people are losing their jobs or they are just becoming lazy because they know they can receive benefits from the government and live off of them for their whole life.
Another program that seems to be used incorrectly is Medicaid. Many people who have
Medicaid or such government assistance abuse the privilege by going to emergency rooms across the country for non-emergency problems. Many people simply don’t care because they are not footing the bill. This irresponsibility weighs heavy on the backs of the taxpayers whose tax dollars pay for