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Date Submitted: 12/21/2010 11:54 AM
Jennifer Blount
Suzanne Salemi – College Writing
CUL-221624-0210SU2
Thesis-Support Essay
June 20, 2010
Welfare: A Cry for Reform
We all know that public assistance is not meant to be a permanent form of income, yet somehow, it becomes a way of life for certain segments of society. I am certainly not against public assistance as a whole. I believe a system must be in place to help out the less fortunate in our society. However, I feel that the true aim of welfare and public assistance has been lost through the repeated abuse of the system. Shouldn't the goal be to help people attain a position in life where they will no longer require assistance?
Millions of Americans are enrolled in the welfare system; a program designed to give a boost to the poor and needy families to help them make it through the year while they got back on their feet. Unfortunately, it has now become a way of life for many. Many argue that welfare is now destroying our culture and creating dependent people who learned to abuse privileges that come with living in America. Welfare has become a target for lazy mothers and others who have no values or willingness to obtain a job. This definitely makes an impact on the needy families and people with disabilities who deserve to receive aid from this program. That is why there should be enforceable guide lines that are met to regulate how long people stay on the welfare system.
Welfare system improvement became a hot theme in the1990's. While campaigning for the presidency in 1992, former president Bill Clinton promised to “end welfare as we know it.” Clinton was responding to public pressure to reform the program of public aid to the poor, known simply as “welfare,” which by the early 1990s had developed a reputation as being wasteful and ineffective. In some ways, Clinton’s vision of welfare, a vision that emphasized work instead of dependency on the government, was quite different from the program that originated with Aid to Dependent...