Welfare
-President Johnson expands social welfare programs
*social welfare- government programs intended to help the poor
*most common types of welfare provided benefits to the elderly, retired, sick, unemployed and mothers
*some view welfare as a matter of right vs matter of need
*social welfare- government programs intended to help the poor
*most common types of welfare provided benefits to the elderly, retired, sick, unemployed and mothers
*some view welfare as a matter of right vs matter of need
Government Dependency
- Johnson received major backlash for his implementing of welfare system. Handing out money was make people lazy, or trapped in a cycle of poorness.
- Conservatives thought federal money should be spent on the poor
- Johnson's efforts did not attain a substantial reduction in the rate of poverty
- These programs locked poor people into government dependency which is defined as receiving more than 50% of their total annual income
Failed War
- Welfare is a failure for most because it's just a temporary fix.
- People don't actually fix the problem, which is not earning enough money to support a living.
- One solution would be to help the unemployed get jobs, so they can break the cycle rather than just having money sent to them.
- When people have money sent to them, it gives them no incentive to actually get a job
- On top of all that, the money comes from taxing the hard working Americans
“The government programs have thrown money at poverty since the mid-’60s, $19 trillion. And we have 10 times more people on welfare, more people in poverty, more broken homes, more crimes.”
“As we mark the 50th anniversary of Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty, the U.S. Census Bureau is set to release information showing that America’s most costly war — $22 trillion has been spent on the anti-poverty effort — has been an abject failure”
- Ben Carson
