Welfare

Welfare is a means based government program. The goals of which are to help low - none income households. This is why so much time was spent talking about intervening and directly improving the education and health of those living in poverty. My first few points directly go to why America should provide such aid to the impoverished.One point to make is that low income is now becoming nearly one third of Americas population. These are families living paycheck to paycheck. When economic recessions hit it will take longer for a trickle down economy to recover. Disease among such a large portion of the population effect everyone, rich and poor.Child SupportChild support is a part of welfare. As I cited earlier congress implemented the program to save welfare dollars. Welfare encompasses child welfare, which under it's tenets have foster care, protective services, and the day care operations my opponent cites. I was merely using a program that is means based. Custodial parents of low income can seek legal advice and help to file for child support. Along with means based is the program my opponent cites. That program is to give parents and single parents the opportunity to return to work.Another program under the welfare system is Medicaid. And when you research what is effected most by being married or not, even attested to by my opponent's sources, is Medicaid benefits. Medicaid was never meant to be a universal health care plan. A plan under Obama that has yet to see how it will effect such cultures.People don;t have babies so they can get money to care for those babies. Children cost more time, energy, and money than someone will ever get out of free medical visits. The math does not add up.Just because someone is not getting married does not mean they are not in a relationship. One the sources my opponent cites are small sample cases. Hardly enough to make a statistical analysis of the population. The cause is see that low income parents who have medical aid for their children, are hesitate to married even other low income partners because the children can lose doctor visits. This is not have babies and government will give you enough money to pay rent and buy a new car.It does not violate the Role of Government.In 1824 Chief Justice John Marshall described in obiter dictum a further limit on the General Welfare Clause in Gibbons v. Ogden: "Congress is authorized to lay and collect taxes, &c. to pay the debts and provide for the common defence and general welfare of the United States. ... Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States."The general welfare clause in the constitution has been used to legitimize such expenditures and fee based programs. As recent as 1982 in South Dakota vs Dole. The government with held 5% federal highway spending to a state if it did not maintain a minimum drinking age of 21. The vote 7-2 upheld the "general welfare" clause to mean the government has a responsibility to enact regulations and programs that benefit the greater America.An increase duration in economic gains, an increase in economic growth, a decrease in crime, a decrease in disease, an increase in rural American economy, and an increase in children finishing school are effects of the government welfare spending.It Does NOT Helps Perpetuate a Failing Economic System.The whole first round I argued from the point of how welfare spending in relation to peer countries shows an increase in economic growth and durations. This is the evidence I presented to show that welfare does not perpetuate a failing system. No economic system is 100%. Especially not in this global world. By having a portion of the economy unable to spend money and barely making living expenses is a disaster. The lack of welfare and temporary assistance like unemployment was a contributing factor in why the great depression was so hard felt. Trickle down economics is a lame horse in global markets. The wealthy spend their money on the cheapest sectors and these sectors stay in poverty. The money does not return to the us economy from the bottom up. Again the US is a service orientated economy, the best thing for such an economy is to have a bigger market of customers. A population that can afford those services will drive economic success. The way we as a nation get there is by providing means tested programs to make sure the next generation is healthy and educated to work and live.Sources: I cited the source to give readers a historical background. Hence why it followed a sentence sating how at one time we did not have welfare, great depression, then welfare. And how these programs were valuable and still valuable to keeping a collapse from being as likely."Let me address those 2 sources. The first one is a document from 1953 that pro cites as a source for when welfare began. http://www.ssa.gov...; - my opponent.