Arguments Against The Welfare System

"Unfortunately, over the years it became increasingly evident that welfare did much to discourage marriage and work, and destroy family and community," said Doug Bandow in 2013. There are numerous provisions set up within the United States in order to provide assistance for the less fortunate throughout the nation. However because these services no longer achieve the job they were implemented to achieve, funding for these organizations should be withdrawn and the burden removed from the general public. The integrity of said organizations is faulted because it promotes a dependent society, is not financially sustainable, and is widely taken advantage of. And it is for these reasons that anyone can agree that the welfare system is no longer effective.
The original key principle was that the Government would be run by the citizens of America versus an elite few who might gain individual power. However, in today’s society, the word that needs to be most heavily examined would be ‘independent”. Only a society that is self-sufficient has the capability of governing itself for the purpose of positive direction. In other words, how can a community appropriately determine what’s necessary to prosper when the community itself is not capable of adequately providing for itself. This can be linked to our welfare system due to the fact that it encourages a dependent society. In 2103, $48 million Americans were gathering Food Stamps alone, let alone of the approximate 80 other programs designed to provide for the public. That’s 1 out of every 6 People living here. The entire world has been captivated by the story of a 36-year-old single mother from Denmark who acquires more in government assistance that the national average of many other Danes and for more than 20 years! The problem has become so severe that Karen Haekkerup can be quoted that, “[people] think of these benefits as their rights. The rights have just expanded and
Today the federal government spends slightly over 1 trillion dollars a year on all levels of welfare, and state governments contribute another $430 billion for the same programs. That actually equals to a 41% increase since 2008. Not to mention Katherine Bradley, Rachel Sheffield, and Robert Rector all conclude that “at current rates the federal government will spend $7.5 trillion and states will spend $2.8 trillion on welfare, for a total of $10.3 trillion.” America cannot afford these ridiculous expenditures. The national deficit rose 5 trillion dollars over the past four years, and is expected to rise 845 billion this year alone. However this doesn’t even consider the 100 trillion dollars of unfunded liability for Medicare and Social Security. Economist Laurence Kotlikoff estimated, “total federal indebtedness at…an astonishing $222 trillion.” So all things considered, Welfare is racking up insurmountable debt that we as a country will never be able to recover from, so it is evident that it is a limb that must be amputated in order to prosper as a nation once