I'm doing a report for College where we can makeup essay. I'm trying to do one on why we need to help poor after some horrible person along rest of class said that welfare People don't deserve to eat organic or healthy food.
darrin b
Then we become like third world countries.
Laurie
Stop trying to write this report off the top of your head.
Do the research.
By the way, the Food Stamp program did NOT begin to help low-income people eat better. It began as a way to subsidize FARMERS - to make sure they could sell their crops and livestock products, by ensuring that more people could buy them.
lare
you need to carefully define "welfare" because many federal programs associated with those in financial difficulty are not welfare. SNAP (food stamps) is not welfare, it is a Department of Agriculture program to subsidize the food industry by stabilizing market prices. Unemployment is not welfare, it is an insurance account paid into by the worker and former employer. Disability is not welfare if it is workplace related, again that is an insurance program paid by the former employer. Social Security is not welfare, its benefits are payback of money paid by the recipient. Medicare is not welfare, again workers pre-pay the premiums for Part A when working and pay the premiums for Part B and D once retired. The Obama phones, more correctly called Reagan phones because he is the one that started the program, is paid for by users of the telephone and cellphone network. Even Section 8 housing assistance is NOT paid to the poor, it is paid to the landlord directly. About the only Federal program that provides any money to the poor is TANF which is by definition temporary.
YYYZZ 2
Crime would skyrocket.
Peace.
Anonymous
That only happens in third world countries.