Analysis Of My Mother Never Worked

Every United States Citizen who works for a paycheck pays for certain government programs which span from social economic supplemental programs to entitlements. With the growing number of the American population, one program has remained constantly in question. Social Security is the largest socialist program funded directly by the taxes which the citizens pay from their paychecks. The program was enacted in 1935 under the Roosevelt administration in order for people of 65 years and older to have a source of income after they have retired. Recent debates have circled the realm of whether or not non-contributors would be able to receive these benefits. Many Americans are outraged at the idea of someone being able to claim these benefits as it …show more content…
In Bonnie Smith- Yackel’s essay, “My Mother Never Worked”, she recounts the grueling life which her mother endured as she tended to the daily needs of the farm and her family as well as what she learns from the Social Security office. Yackel essentially presents the contemporary topic that there are people in the U.S. who have worked strenuous jobs and are denied any security benefits if they have not earned a check. Moreover, she argues that people who have done the tasks her mother has completed should be able to collect Social Security benefits. A person who has not contributed to the United States Social Security program should not be able to collect benefits because the money invested would be taken from other working Americans, the amount of securities available would exponentially decrease due to the number of non-contributors, and as well the entire system of social security would collapse because of the newly presented issue of a lack of …show more content…
Every investment is under the entitlement of the investor to be claimed in any event the investor pleases to do so. Since Social Security is to be considered as an investment, the logical idea would be for investors and only investors to be able to have access to such security benefits. A person cannot walk into any given store and demand a product, if he or she has not presented a way of payment. In the monetarily driven world we exist in, the concept in which giving security benefits to all cannot exist under the circumstances we continuously make for ourselves. Citizens of the U.S. give a sizeable portion to social security which they expect to later receive once they have retired. Those same non-contributors would be taking the money, which these contributing Americans have earned while the securities which were paid for would become much smaller than the expected amount. This is the premise of stealing simply because they are not the rightful owners of such benefits as they have not presented any form of payment. It is immoral to allow someone to demand for something they are not entitled to. This presents itself most prominently with illegal immigration where you have Democrats pushing for the idea of providing programs where undocumented people would receive some sort of benefit. The problem which, yet again presents itself