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George Packer’s goal in the Unwinding was to have people understand why everything has been falling, why America didn’t seem as great at it used to be. Unwinding is a metaphor of how America is falling apart. The Unwinding is a book that helps understand how things are getting bad in this country even though people thought it was going great. Packer tried to understand how things were failing, how companies were getting into debt or how people are individualizing themselves and how the social contract is loosening. He wants people to understand financial crisis in this country after the Iraq war. The Unwinding explains how different peoples’ lives have been affected in this country, it gives different perspectives from different people. …show more content…
Social policy focuses on helping the poor with social welfare programs that provide food stamps and other forms of aid. Social policy helps people going through risk and insecurities, things such as losing a job, or being unable to find a job due to disability or health problems. Another things that social policy funds is social security, tax payers pay in order for seniors to receive the health care they need after retirement. Since the baby boomers are starting to retire more money is needed to fund them. “Needs are determine on different basis from states to states according to patterns and cost of living, social attitudes, and standards of assistance (Dinitto & Johnson, 2015)”. Different locations have different needs and only because one location doesn’t have the same needs as another, it doesn’t mean that they are not going to fund those needs with their taxes. The implication is that so much money is given to fund people in need, the government might cut back on these programs to relieve debt. For a typical American this means that in order to help the government relieve themselves from this debt one has to risk losing funds for public services. If people demand for these services to stay taxes will increase in order to keep these
George Packer’s goal in the Unwinding was to have people understand why everything has been falling, why America didn’t seem as great at it used to be. Unwinding is a metaphor of how America is falling apart. The Unwinding is a book that helps understand how things are getting bad in this country even though people thought it was going great. Packer tried to understand how things were failing, how companies were getting into debt or how people are individualizing themselves and how the social contract is loosening. He wants people to understand financial crisis in this country after the Iraq war. The Unwinding explains how different peoples’ lives have been affected in this country, it gives different perspectives from different people. …show more content…
Social policy focuses on helping the poor with social welfare programs that provide food stamps and other forms of aid. Social policy helps people going through risk and insecurities, things such as losing a job, or being unable to find a job due to disability or health problems. Another things that social policy funds is social security, tax payers pay in order for seniors to receive the health care they need after retirement. Since the baby boomers are starting to retire more money is needed to fund them. “Needs are determine on different basis from states to states according to patterns and cost of living, social attitudes, and standards of assistance (Dinitto & Johnson, 2015)”. Different locations have different needs and only because one location doesn’t have the same needs as another, it doesn’t mean that they are not going to fund those needs with their taxes. The implication is that so much money is given to fund people in need, the government might cut back on these programs to relieve debt. For a typical American this means that in order to help the government relieve themselves from this debt one has to risk losing funds for public services. If people demand for these services to stay taxes will increase in order to keep these