SWPS Responses. Week 9

Firstly, when I saw the topic, "Everyone is on welfare" I had to reflect as to the nature of this one sentence, how could everyone be on welfare? If anyone had said this to me four months ago I would have said, "not possible," but with the current read from our class and reads from other classes, I just realized that the statement is correct. It might be disguised in the many forms like unemployment compensation, reimbursements for business lunches, cost of in-service training as well tax deductions for mortgage interest but it is still the same. It is a terrible shame that the privileged are always taking disadvantage of the marginalized by the oppressions that are created by the system and it is legitimate. The privileged are not the ones that writes the laws that govern, but they certain have not protested about the unfair treatments of the disadvantage and the ways they have profited from the way that they are treated.

My view about welfare has certainly broadened, I now realize that there are two distinct paths, one for the rich and the other for the poor. As highlighted in the handout, one of the programs carry a stigma that makes it look illegitimate while the other is so carefully disguised, that if you don't have the information that was provided in the articles you would not be aware that it exist. The only way I believe there can be changes, is through education, This means, giving people the information that is needed to elevate themselves from not thinking that they are the only ones that benefit from the system and that everyone benefits and show the ways that each of us in some shape or form utilize these benefits.

As social workers, I believe we can work through advocacy to remove some of the tax loop holes that benefit the rich and not the poor, Also, as the article stated, " we should expose them for what they are, which is undemocratic and unfair."