Getting paid to do Nothing: Problem Solution essay Imagine a nation with everyone in poverty, with everyone struggling to make ends meet. Unfortunately that world is closer than we think. In August of this year around 110. 489, 000 people in the Unites states was on welfare. (2) There is also around 41,700,000 people on food stamps and 10,200,000 people living on unemployment insurance.(2) If you add these numbers up you are looking at about 35.4% of the United States population. As a nation we spend approximately $131,900, 000,000 dollars on welfare each year.(2) That number is not including food stamps. The united states has massive amounts of debts to other nations but yet we can ship out 131 trillion dollars on welfare. There are many
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Many teens have never had to have a job, have never had to pay for anything on their owns. They get everything giving to them. The sad thing about our nation is more than a third of the population do as well. More and more people each year get some sort of government help. When Roosevelt developed his welfare program in 1935, his goal was to allow the unemployed, and or underemployed american citizens out of poverty throughout the great depression. (5) Roosevelt continued to help benefit dependent children. The hole meaning of welfare has changed. Numerous people have realized that being on welfare is more of a benefit, rather than a helpful tool to get yourself and your family back on your feet after a hard time. Our nation has one of the largest debts in the world.The United States is pushing the limits of a new record debt. We are just short of 18.5 trillion dollars in debt in the U.S. Two out of the six of the biggest debts in the U.S is social security roughly at 8.8million and the highest leading debt is medicare and medicaid at nearly 9.9 million. That is around 17 million of the nation 's debt is due to welfare. (4) My question is why are we spending 17 million dollars of money we don’t have to help people, that don’t necessarily need all the help the
Many teens have never had to have a job, have never had to pay for anything on their owns. They get everything giving to them. The sad thing about our nation is more than a third of the population do as well. More and more people each year get some sort of government help. When Roosevelt developed his welfare program in 1935, his goal was to allow the unemployed, and or underemployed american citizens out of poverty throughout the great depression. (5) Roosevelt continued to help benefit dependent children. The hole meaning of welfare has changed. Numerous people have realized that being on welfare is more of a benefit, rather than a helpful tool to get yourself and your family back on your feet after a hard time. Our nation has one of the largest debts in the world.The United States is pushing the limits of a new record debt. We are just short of 18.5 trillion dollars in debt in the U.S. Two out of the six of the biggest debts in the U.S is social security roughly at 8.8million and the highest leading debt is medicare and medicaid at nearly 9.9 million. That is around 17 million of the nation 's debt is due to welfare. (4) My question is why are we spending 17 million dollars of money we don’t have to help people, that don’t necessarily need all the help the