Everyone loves something free. Stores advertise for free deals to bring people in, and "free" seems to have a desirable connotation about it, but what does free exactly mean? Someone once stated, "Free cheese is always available in mouse traps." Well, mice love cheese right, that's obvious; but a mouse trap kilsl the mice. The free cheese is the bait to get the mice towards the stuff they love, but they end up having to pay for that cheese with their life. In other words, something is never free. Someone, somewhere has to pay for that free thing, even if it doesn't directly affect you. The “free thing” being referred to in this situation is welfare, or “free” handouts for the needy people. The price is the rise of debt and economical problems
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The welfare programs today are predominantly exploited and end up having more disadvantages to them. One of the reasons it can be easily exploited is because of the limited regulations surrounding who is able to get the free handouts and who is not able to. For those who get into the programs, many of them end up depending on the welfare programs too much. In doing so, they defeat the purpose of welfare in the first place: to help those in need back onto their feet and into the economy again. By staying in the program past their point of need, they are not only using government funds, but also depriving the economy of their would be contribution to cash flow in the economy. The government cannot afford to help everyone in poverty all the way out and back into the economy again; the people must put in effort as well. But because of those who exploit the system, it turns a of the percentage welfare funding into unnecessary as well as money spent that the government does not have …show more content…
Some are more beneficial and harder to exploit than others. Overall, there are roughly 13 types or categories (not including Medicaid). For those without an income and not having to pay income tax, there is the Negative Income Tax policy, which gives them money in place of them paying taxes since they do not have an income. SNAP is a food stamp program for those in need of money to purchase food. However, currently the form in which the food stamp is issued as a debit card. During the Great Depression, when welfare began to be implemented widespread, one of the factors that kept people from over using food stamps and welfare was the embarrassment of having to rely on them. They got off of them as soon as they could to spare themselves from more embarrassment. This transformation into the simple use of food stamps takes away that social pressure to stop relying on government help and support yourself, which has led to more exploitation. HUD organizes public housing throughout the states. Just able persons or people over 65 years are supported by SSI, which pays them a certain amount of money over time. TANF is a temporary assistance program to get people back on their feet and back into the economy (this is the more beneficial kind of welfare and should be implemented more). For education, Pell grants for college students exists as well as Head Start for preschoolers. Within schools, a child nutrition
The welfare programs today are predominantly exploited and end up having more disadvantages to them. One of the reasons it can be easily exploited is because of the limited regulations surrounding who is able to get the free handouts and who is not able to. For those who get into the programs, many of them end up depending on the welfare programs too much. In doing so, they defeat the purpose of welfare in the first place: to help those in need back onto their feet and into the economy again. By staying in the program past their point of need, they are not only using government funds, but also depriving the economy of their would be contribution to cash flow in the economy. The government cannot afford to help everyone in poverty all the way out and back into the economy again; the people must put in effort as well. But because of those who exploit the system, it turns a of the percentage welfare funding into unnecessary as well as money spent that the government does not have …show more content…
Some are more beneficial and harder to exploit than others. Overall, there are roughly 13 types or categories (not including Medicaid). For those without an income and not having to pay income tax, there is the Negative Income Tax policy, which gives them money in place of them paying taxes since they do not have an income. SNAP is a food stamp program for those in need of money to purchase food. However, currently the form in which the food stamp is issued as a debit card. During the Great Depression, when welfare began to be implemented widespread, one of the factors that kept people from over using food stamps and welfare was the embarrassment of having to rely on them. They got off of them as soon as they could to spare themselves from more embarrassment. This transformation into the simple use of food stamps takes away that social pressure to stop relying on government help and support yourself, which has led to more exploitation. HUD organizes public housing throughout the states. Just able persons or people over 65 years are supported by SSI, which pays them a certain amount of money over time. TANF is a temporary assistance program to get people back on their feet and back into the economy (this is the more beneficial kind of welfare and should be implemented more). For education, Pell grants for college students exists as well as Head Start for preschoolers. Within schools, a child nutrition