In this report I am going to be talking about the Government programs such as welfare. The reason I have choose this topic is because these certain government programs are not fair to a lot of people. These programs are supposed to be there for families and people that need assistance, but I believe that welfare is just a lazy excuse for people to sit around and live off of tax payers. People have been on welfare for years, and a lot of them don’t plan on doing anything anytime soon with there lives, why? Because they are comfortable with receiving free money every month from the government. Not only do they get money which is known as cash aide they receive other assistances such as food stamps. Housing assistance, and paid child care. Right off the top of my head I am not sure of the other programs available but as I get into my report I will talk more about the whole problem with the Government assistance programs.
The only solution I strongly believe that will stop people from living off of Government assistance programs is to cut welfare off. I know that a lot of people are on these programs, but I believe that if were to be cut off a lot more people will be forced to get up and find a job or go to school. I know that a lot of people will be homeless, and crime rate will go up, but I think that welfare being cut off is the best solution we have to solve this problem. Or I think that these government programs should have strict requirements, I know that there are requirements now but that are not strict enough and people play the welfare system all the time. Since the year 2000 federal, state, and local governments spent about $1.01 trillion on social welfare programs(financial Report of the U.S Government.2004). That is 1 trillion dolla ...