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Poverty and Welfare- it’s an issue. Many who claim unemployment and receive welfare, food stamps, etc. are abled bodied individuals who simply do not want to work. I believe poverty & welfare to be an issue more pressing than others because not only does it affect the people of today’s society, but it affects generations to come. Our national debt has far exceeded 18 trillion dollars and is climbing every minute. With this being an issue, how can the government continue citizen aid without the ability to audit the said handouts? Ben Carson, a 2016 presidential candidate discusses this controversial issue and seems to take a strong stand on the same side of the fence as myself. In his novel, America the Beautiful, Carson states that there are three solutions. The solutions are as follows:
1. Tell those who don't work that they are on their own. 2. Take from those who have something and redistribute it to the individuals who aren't working. 3. Borrow from a 3rd party in order to take care of the nonworking individuals and leave the debt to future generations. Carson clearly distinguishes how continuing to freely give out handouts will not prove to be a sustainable solution. The ONLY sustainable solution is to deny aid to those who deny work. As Carson states in his novel, “Thus solution 1 is the only one that stands the test of logic and is the one upon which we should concentrate,” (pg. 88 – 89). But this is not the only time Dr. Carson has touched on this specific issue. On August 26 of 2015 Carson was quoted in a CNN interview stating,“The government programs have thrown money at poverty since the mid-’60's, $19 trillion. And we have 10 times more people on welfare, more people in poverty, more broken homes, more crimes." Government aid to citizens was initially created to aid citizens to get back on their feet, to gain back the ability to support themselves. It has done exactly the opposite by enabling citizens to continue being supported governmental aid. I do not believe in destroying citizen aid, as many individuals are unable to work, the aid is a necessity to achieve a quality of life in which all individuals can live prosperously. What that might look like I am not exactly sure; but I am sure that the system we are working off of now is not one that can promote and support our country and our economy. We have created a system in which individuals have become so accustomed to receiving. Sometimes, to get you have to give- and the individuals who 'simply do not want to work' refuse to give. We have composed a system in which we are in an endless cycle where that money will never be given back. Attached is a hyperlink to the text I used to respond to this issue of Welfare and Poverty- Source: America the Beautiful, by Ben Carson, p. 88-89 , Jan 24, 2012 Below is the article where I retrieved Carson's CNN Interview
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/wp/2015/09/08/ben-carsons-claim-that-we-have-10-times-people-more-people-on-welfare/
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