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Many people have different views on welfare and how it should be used/ applied. Imagine the President has called you and wants your opinion on the future of welfare in this country. How would you reply?

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A welfare state is a state that is committed to providing basic economic security for its citizens by protecting them from market risks associated with old age unemployment accidents and sickness

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United States answer here, this is a very opinion based answer but here's what I'd give:

Step-by-step explanation:

In my opinion, Welfare is a system that was doomed from the start. By giving money to the hands of the people you are yes, boosting the economy, but you're just harming those people in the long run. When you give money to a consumer to use that money on necessities it drives the cost of necessities up. For example, When the government gives welfare and Medicare coverage to citizens it only cost the government more money to pay for the services that use that welfare. By giving medicare to a citizen all the government is doing is paying for the bills that citizen has, and the bills are designed by greedy corporations who drive all the prices up to get more money from the government. If the government instead funded that money into resource's such as government run facilities that make no profit towards the facility and only profits the government, then the government could charge medical bills at a fair rate and waver people of low income. The government should take the billion's being spent on welfare and use it to fund government programs that only profit the government and the citizens of America that need it.

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