Although the welfare system started out as just an appreciated helping hand for people in need, undoubtedly it has moved from that helping hand, to a way of holding individuals back from succeeding on their own, through its many programs such as food stamps, low income assistance, housing assistance, to the basic fact of who actually gets the assistance. Welfare really got to dig its roots into America during the time of the Great Depression. It was at this point, when local and state governments along with private charities were being overwhelmed with individuals and families seeking the necessities to live, that they could no longer afford themselves. This is the main point when welfare for the poor became the government 's responsibility.
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She comments on America 's welfare system as being very distinctive, but not being what Americans think it is. Backing this idea with, “the United States does tax less and spend less on social programs than most of the rich democracies with which it is usually compared. But even so, the country has developed a large and complex system of social protection, one that involves a mix of government spending, tax-based subsidies, and private social spending”(2). She also acknowledges that the distribution of welfare in America has become unbalanced and incomplete, pointing out that even after the Affordable Care Act, the amount of the population without health care will remain higher than other advanced country. She also goes as far to point out that the measure of the U.S. social policy-direct public spending on social programs compared to other rich democracies, and with the U.S. being at the bottom of the list and states, “while there are other countries that do focus their social policies on helping the disadvantaged, the Unites States is not one of them” (4). An analysis done by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities at one time had reported that about 20 percent of entitlement spending went to the top ten percent of households, while only 32 percent went to the bottom 20 percent. Along with 58 percent going to the middle …show more content…
The simple fact is, no one votes for somebody who tells the ugly truth, they rather vote for pretty lies. But when the population does this nothing gets fixed instead Kevin states, “the government’s pouring billions of dollars into firms that were, in the famous phrase, too big to fail” (3), still we voted for it. But why even is money going to these firms in the first place? This is because of the theory that if a country is away producing then its economy will not fall along with the fact big business creates jobs, but with this direction of cash flow comes other
She comments on America 's welfare system as being very distinctive, but not being what Americans think it is. Backing this idea with, “the United States does tax less and spend less on social programs than most of the rich democracies with which it is usually compared. But even so, the country has developed a large and complex system of social protection, one that involves a mix of government spending, tax-based subsidies, and private social spending”(2). She also acknowledges that the distribution of welfare in America has become unbalanced and incomplete, pointing out that even after the Affordable Care Act, the amount of the population without health care will remain higher than other advanced country. She also goes as far to point out that the measure of the U.S. social policy-direct public spending on social programs compared to other rich democracies, and with the U.S. being at the bottom of the list and states, “while there are other countries that do focus their social policies on helping the disadvantaged, the Unites States is not one of them” (4). An analysis done by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities at one time had reported that about 20 percent of entitlement spending went to the top ten percent of households, while only 32 percent went to the bottom 20 percent. Along with 58 percent going to the middle …show more content…
The simple fact is, no one votes for somebody who tells the ugly truth, they rather vote for pretty lies. But when the population does this nothing gets fixed instead Kevin states, “the government’s pouring billions of dollars into firms that were, in the famous phrase, too big to fail” (3), still we voted for it. But why even is money going to these firms in the first place? This is because of the theory that if a country is away producing then its economy will not fall along with the fact big business creates jobs, but with this direction of cash flow comes other