How to reform welfare system

U.S government’s deficit has been accumulated to 1.4 trillion since 2001. People who vs. wars believed that over fifty percent of government’s budgets are military expense. However government states that government’s regular expenses include military expenses is only 40% of the budget. Sixty of government’s income is paid for social security, SSI, Media, and Medicare.

No matter what the deficit situation cannot be continued like this. For stopping that we should do two things together increase the tax and cut the budget as well. My last article accused Obama’s decision about extend tax cut for the wealthy. Today I am going to discuss the way of cutting expenses. Without presenting some actually ideas I will be a big talker just like him.

Politicians in the U.S government tend to argue for some things day after day and revise the bills again and again. End up is they doing nothing but still get pay. For avoiding that situation we can simply do things that both party agree to do such as cut budget.

The leader of Republican Eric Cantor swears that when his party controls the senate they will start to cut budget. It is said his salary was increased 81% in the last 9 years and his office expense increased 16% in 2010. Over all the government’s salary increased 50% in the last nine years. It looks like the cutting budget action must start from White House first or politicians will get no trust and no co-operation from the society.

U.S government giving free lunch to those so call poor people all these years and hardly arranged them to work. This is the big thing that upset the working classes.

A woman immigrated to this country at her 55 years old and never worked. She is over 90 years old now and she has retirement pension in her country. However, besides getting the SSI Check and Medicaid she has twenty-four hours home care service. In the last 40 years she has spent taxpayers’ fund up to one million dollars.

In California, a new immigrant at his fifties damaged one of his eyes. His body is function well includes his other eye. However, he was considered disability and be able to collect a check at home. Later his wife also gets a pay check by taking care of him.

An old lady gets home care for twenty-four hours a day while she is living with three of her children who are all retire at home. Each 24 hours home care case which costs seventy thousand to one hundred fifty thousand dollars a year is paid by the government. In 2010 home care funding by government is the only field that has positions open in New York City. That is how our government spents money and creates jobs for the market.

A mother and her son live in a one bed room apartment with the rent of $1440 dollar that paid by New York City government. The same size of the apartment in the same building is rented by working class for only $ 1150 monthly.

All these kinds of welfare: SSI check, Medicaid and home care service are only provided to people who have income less than $750 monthly. People who work and paid tax usually have social security check over that amount and not qualify to take the assistance. People who not work enjoy the benefit and people who work have to suffered. Government has absolute right to end the situation and when we do that those people have no way to fight back.

We can get rid of the expenses by sent them to live in government’s projects. Let them live there to help each other or work in the factory facility nearby. Priority thing we have to do is building up shelters. Use the fund for bail out, for high speed rail, and for green revolution to build up properties for the government. That is a real process of creating asset and it can create construction jobs immediately.

Why do I keep mention building house? In China why workers willing to work for low salary? It is because when they word far from their home town the factories provide them shelters or even foods.The salary they get $400 is almost the net income they have every month. In the United States not that many families have $400 saving after paying for their shelters, cars, food and insurance.

I focused on solving shelters problem also because it can directly substitute governments SSI payments. The location we choose should be the low cost lands on suburbs or lands own by government. Around there we will build up factory facilities. Government should convince businesses owners move to there and charge them low rent. Businesses will get low paid labors through government’s arrangement. They are people who need public assistance or are unemployed. In this picture positions that the government provides is not the unnecessary positions such as cleaning streets but jobs that can create wealth. The producing process creates profit and pay people’s salary. The salary can be $3 dollars an hour because government provides shelters and foods to the workers already. $3 an hour will give a person net income up to $500 a month. I believe the low rent, low salary and low transportation fee can help our business survive even in the age of free trade.

Anybody can move in to the projects include the older and people who have children. We can set up day care center there and free the mothers. The mothers will work in the factories or take care of the older by getting pay. The home care fee government paid will be $3 an hour rather than 30$ an hour that they paid to the home care agents. People who refuse to move into this kind of projects cannot get SSI any more. Because it means they are not in a desperate situation and they actually can take care of themselves. If they beg or rob in the street they will be put into jail and from the jail they are mandatory to settle up and work in somewhere.
Government might not get good income in this kind of projects. But just building some shelters will save big money from SSI check and jobless aid for the government. People who need government’s assistance will have no choice but move and work there. If they have decent jobs they can move out from there anytime.

We will provide good entertainment programs in the facilities and make them are decent living centers but not homeless shelters. We need students from universes to work there to build a environment with culture, energy and moral standers. People will feel that work there is happy and glorry.

I believe this is practical because the manufacture processing is in charging by private business and government is only assisting them. (I know government’s ability and wouldn’t put too much expectation on them) Government will share some profit in case there are some. Government helps to solve employment problem and shelter problem. In this picture our priority goal is to create jobs. We might not have good profit on this proposal but we can at least get rid of government’s payments for the welfare system.

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