According to the dictionary, "welfare" means "health, happiness, and prosperity; well-being" and "organized efforts to improve the living conditions of needy persons" and "assistance given to those in need; public relief.” Welfare is meant to help people get back on their feet, and also for those who aren’t able to work because of deficiencies or others things that the individual has no fault of their own. The welfare program can work as long as people are willing to accept personal responsibility for their actions and eventually they will be able to work their way up. Welfare also helps people not be reliant on others around them and it stops them from having to have everything provided for them. The welfare system has high requirements in order to be able to be accepted …show more content…
We needed one another and treated one another as equals because every single person was a great attribute to helping one another survive. Now, as time has gone on, our society is focusing more on money and focusing more towards survival of the fittest. America was meant for us to have freedom, and for our country to have patriotism and love, not greed and selfishness. Although the American dream has slowly been fading through the years, it hasn’t completely deteriorated. What balances the greed and selfishness out is helping one another. Welfare is helping other people in need, contributing to others to help them in their time of need, but also making sure that it is done in a fair and right way. People don’t realize that it’s the little things like Welfare that make a big difference in the world. Welfare has helped thousands of people. Yes, the welfare system can have some cheaters, but what system out there has no cheaters involved? Cheaters will have that guilt on their conscience and that’s their problem, but the benefits of welfare overweigh the cheaters