The U.S. welfare program/Carlos Pueblo

The U.S. welfare program/Carlos Pueblo

The U.S. welfare program has been very impressed to me ever since I come to

this nation some 44 years before. Recently, I visited a social security office and

witness long lines and room full of applicants waiting to apply for benefit and I

am touched. Many Chinese Dynasties were toppled by civil unrest and continue

to a peasant war. It is why modern rich nations provide welfare program to buy

time for peace that I am impressed. I see applicants on the office that are

vividly needed help from their appearance; therefore, I know that there are

some other function which the office is provided. Social security program is

a federal insurance which covers the disability, blindness, and minors’ benefit

until 19 in case of early death of a parent, etc. There are different ages of the

mature day for the recipient, 62, 66, 67, and 70 ½ are depended on rules and

regulations. I believe that the Medicare program is also under the same

administrator. Welfare program is under government budget while the social

security benefit and Medicare are funded by recipients while they work and pay

tax accordingly. The U.S. is the only nation provides such programs above for

nations with 100 million population or above, i.e. China, India, Russia, Japan,

Indonesia, and Philippine, etc., because the huge burden. It is one of the reasons

Why immigrants love this nation.

Compassion is a human nature like the feeling when you see a kid drop to a well.

This is what Mencius example of compassion. We know that those poor and disable

are the weak being in the society and we must help them. As a government, we

must do our best, put up our effort to help. However, with governmental help can’t

lift those out of struggling class, in another talking, the welfare program won’t get

forward but buying some time to prepare ourselves to fight the issue.

I was from a poor and struggle family of 9 when I was a child. My research indicates

that my grandparents time was even worse, at that time, Taiwan was a colony of

Manchu Dynasty and Japanese Empire. My Dad won’t mention such misery past

but encouraged us to leave such environment and seek a better opportunity. He

insists a better school education for every child in the family. Before I left Taiwan,

I was a high school teacher. I pass on his discipline as a parent, of course, with Amy’s

help to support our children to have college education and work thereafter. I call this

a family warmness or family value. My son Arthur works at a supermarket and is very

stressful to witness shop lifting on the store and I point it out that people are wasting

their time to engage such behavior to advance to nowhere.