Welfare Argumentative Essay

Our parents work hard to provide the things we will need in life. Such as water, food, clothes and shelter. There comes a time where they struggle to provide those things, and they become unemployed. It could be a struggle for them to find another job, so they have to result to welfare. Welfare means financial support given to people in need. People nowadays will become unemployed on purpose so they can get on welfare. I think the Welfare system should be revised.

Means-tested programs are fiscally unsustainable; these programs cost nearly one trillion annually. By the end of the decade, welfare spending will rise from five percent to six percent. This means every taxpaying family would have to make, and then give up over one hundred thousand dollars in the next ten years-just to cover the cost of welfare spending. …show more content…
Adjusted for inflation, we’ve spent nearly twenty trillion on the “war on poverty”. That’s more than the combined price tag of all America’s wars. This spending gives people significant incentive to stay on welfare. If you break it down welfare spending per household in poverty, recipients are making thirty dollars per hour. That’s higher than the twenty-five dollars per hour median income. It’s certainly more than what I make per hour.

People didn’t help make welfare better, some would lie about their situation so they will be able to get on welfare. They are just getting free money every month.Most people don’t even use the money responsibly, they spend it on things they want instead of things they need. They don’t use it to pay off any bills, or buy food and clothes. Which makes it bad for the people who really needs it. Pretty soon welfare will become very strict on who they let in. It will make it very difficult to get on