I personally think that the people that live off of welfare checks should only be able to buy the things they need in order to live and to have good hygiene. They shouldn’t be able to buy narcotics like cigarettes, beer, and other things that hurt their health. “The law required that able-bodied adults go to work within two years of receiving assistance and imposed a lifetime limit of five years of welfare benefits.”, I agree with this statement because people may need help for a while to get back on their feet but eventually they need to try to get a job ("Revisiting welfare reform."). I know there are many requirements you have to meet in order to get welfare assistance, but it should be more complex and not just a back ground …show more content…
They try so hard and actually go out of their way just to prove that “they can’t work”, when in reality they are just too lazy to better themselves and for their family. Americans surprise me on how much trouble they will go through just to get government assistant so that they don’t have to work or pay a lot of taxes. “Americans have commonly distinguished between the deserving poor, who become needy through no fault of their own and are entitled to public assistance, and the undeserving poor, who are responsible for their own plight and who could escape poverty by developing a strong work ethic” ( Geary, Daniel). Daniel Geary is clearly trying to tell the people that getting welfare is here to help you better yourself and in some cases it’s here to help the people that really need it and can’t help themselves by getting a job. Welfare is not something that we as people that just don’t want to work should take advantage you should want to better yourself in order to live a successful life we’ve dreamed