Unfair Welfare

Fellow classmate Kelya writes about her experience with government welfare programs.

She talks about her own experiences working at a grocery store, with an irate couple relying on their food stamp card and mismanaging their resources, as well as many people using their food stamps to purchase large quantities of junk food. She goes on to say that the government should be more careful in choosing who to assist in order to avoid allowing lazy people to live off of welfare funds.

I tend to agree. It is not to our benefit, or to society's benefit as a whole, to essentially reward people for doing nothing. My own opinion on the matter is perhaps far more extreme, but I wouldn't be heartbroken to see welfare programs disappear entirely. To me, the most important thing is always the benefit of society as a whole. If some people can't support themselves, the government should not step in to prop them up. They can either stand on their own legs, or rely on the support of people who care about them. But if they can't do that, and if nobody cares about them, then they serve no benefit to society, and it shouldn't fall on us to support them.

It is a sad outlook to think about. I recognize that. But I truly believe that abolishing government welfare programs would be the greatest benefit to society as a whole, and because of that, it is the right thing to do.