Government Assistance
Government Assistance to Those Who Need It
The government really needs to focus more on assisting the people who really truly need their help. They need to stop helping the ones in this magnificent country of ours such as: drug addicts, illegal immigrants, and all those people who live to take advantage of the system and find loopholes. They need to do background checks on the people who they assist and do quarterly personal check-ups to make sure they are spending this countries tax money on the right things. They need to help out the homeless more, as well as the people that are almost homeless for next to uncontrollable reasons such as divorce, and natural disasters that befall onto them.
Did you know that the government spends over $11 billion to $22 billion on welfare to illegal aliens each year by state governments? Or how about that 2.5 billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for them? That illegal households only pay about one-third the amount of federal taxes that non-illegal households pay? Or even that 1.9 billion dollars a year is spent on food-assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC and free school lunches for illegal aliens? The government should be more pressing about not allowing the aliens even in the country, especially if they can’t pay the money to live here.
We all know of someone that uses the system to their own benefit. Such as people who have workers compensation fraud. About 1 in every 10 people that file for workers compensation aren’t even truly hurt. An example of someone taking advantage of the system would be Mr. Jim. Mr. Jim was in a pretty horrendous part of his life so he filed for bankruptcy because he was about to lose everything he had. So the government decided to help him out but instead of using it for house repairs he just goes into a smaller apartment and buys a brand new truck. Another example would be Miss Lake. Miss Lake has had seven children and about to have her eighth. The problem is that Miss Lake
The government really needs to focus more on assisting the people who really truly need their help. They need to stop helping the ones in this magnificent country of ours such as: drug addicts, illegal immigrants, and all those people who live to take advantage of the system and find loopholes. They need to do background checks on the people who they assist and do quarterly personal check-ups to make sure they are spending this countries tax money on the right things. They need to help out the homeless more, as well as the people that are almost homeless for next to uncontrollable reasons such as divorce, and natural disasters that befall onto them.
Did you know that the government spends over $11 billion to $22 billion on welfare to illegal aliens each year by state governments? Or how about that 2.5 billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for them? That illegal households only pay about one-third the amount of federal taxes that non-illegal households pay? Or even that 1.9 billion dollars a year is spent on food-assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC and free school lunches for illegal aliens? The government should be more pressing about not allowing the aliens even in the country, especially if they can’t pay the money to live here.
We all know of someone that uses the system to their own benefit. Such as people who have workers compensation fraud. About 1 in every 10 people that file for workers compensation aren’t even truly hurt. An example of someone taking advantage of the system would be Mr. Jim. Mr. Jim was in a pretty horrendous part of his life so he filed for bankruptcy because he was about to lose everything he had. So the government decided to help him out but instead of using it for house repairs he just goes into a smaller apartment and buys a brand new truck. Another example would be Miss Lake. Miss Lake has had seven children and about to have her eighth. The problem is that Miss Lake
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