The Success of Welfare in America
The Success of Welfare in America
The idea of welfare started when the country was in it’s Great Depression. President Hoover spoke of such programs that would bring the country out of the slums it had fallen into, bring it back on track. Hoover was all talk, though, and nothing really changed in his presidency. Along came Franklin Roosevelt with his New Deal program. The program started what we now have established as the social welfare. The New Deal and various other programs were intended to help the poor, and at the time, they did. As these programs continued, the people of the nation found ways to cheat the system and “live off of welfare”, where the ones who really need it are being left out in the streets, uneducated, and malnourished.
In the recent presidency of Bill Clinton, welfare is being taken care of, and reformed. The programs that once helped the nation are to do that very same thing once again. Hillary Clinton was one of the major partakers in this movement to reform welfare. Hillary said that the program was started to help those in dire need, those who were living on the streets and got shot out of luck. But instead of these same types of people taking advantage of welfare, the program has gone to waste on to the many who cheat the system and those who just don’t want to get up every day and go to work to earn their living.
Billions of dollars have been wasted over the years that welfare has been unsuccessful, and it is because of this lack of success that the poor and needy are still stuck in that endless hole of depression, living on the sidewalk of New York City or Los Angeles. The welfare program has been a failure, a welfare trap. But in 1994, the voters wanted the welfare system as is stood, to end. Congress agreed and, finally after much persuasion, the President did as well.
Since 1994, since the people have spoken and government taken action on their words, the welfare reform has proved to be a success. Welfare no longer is creating a nation of ignorant cheats without any work ethics, fewer damaged youths starting their young lives on drugs or in the delivery room at age fourteen. Family values have been reinforced and the educational opportunities of all citizens of this...