The Pros And Cons Of Welfare Programs

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Poverty caused by welfare is a controversial issue throughout the United States. This controversial topic causes economic job loss, society to have the wrong viewpoint of welfare and politically controversy throughout the welfare program. Throughout these problems more arise, such as the one trillion dollars spent in 2012 on welfare programs. Last year alone 668 billion dollars was spent on welfare programs alone. Some of the people that used welfare were cases of fraud and were abusing the system. Millions of people in the United States economy suffers from job loss. Is it actually from job losses or other things? Former president George W. Bush said “ welfare does not cause job loss or any loss at all.” The United States welfare program is designed to help make sure the citizens it helps gains a job while on welfare. George further states “70% of people on welfare found a job within five years.” This comes to show that welfare does not in fact cause economic down side due to job loss. Michael Tanner would like to disagree. In his article “The 15 trillion dollars war on poverty has failed” he said “There are 126 antipoverty programs …show more content…

The United States society believes both. Former president George W. Bush said “ people overcome obstacles and hurdles due to welfare” He also states “ 2.8 million fewer children live in poverty than in 1996” In his intention George W. Bush believes that welfare is helpful. People however abuse the system. In the book Uncle Sam’s Plantation, there is a young women named Sondra and it tells about how she got pregnant and had an abortion in high school. She then figured out that she could work the system and get money if she had another kid. “there is a small percentage of the population that would have a baby just to collect welfare.” In her (Sondra) case that is what she did. People like Sondra that abuse the system like this make people have the demented view point that they have on

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