For many years the debate of governmental assistance and its legitimacy has raged throughout the general public as well as our government. On one end there are the tax payers that work hard over long spans for every penny that they earn. In contrast to that, there are others who fall back on our governmental assistance programs. Having experience in both, employed and unemployed discourses, I would agree there are those who resent governmental assistance as well as those who abuse it. I am willing to admit that many of those whom are unemployed in our society are unemployed for a legitimate reason (i.e. layoffs, disability, etc ). Although there are those who truly need it; there are definitely those who abuse it. I would argue that a shorter time limit should be transcribed into the unemployment application process so that the cycle of abuse can be confronted and minimized. I would like to direct our government's attention to this issue showing how timeliness and fraud directly link to major flaws in society's current mold with regards to the unemployment process. This issue has definitely caught my attention due to the rate of unemployment as well as how common fraudulent activity really is.
To begin the snowball effect of this issue, I will start with the time sensitivity part of this issue. We all understand that things happen in life that causes people to lose their job whether it is company layoffs, under-performance, tardiness, or injury. The issue is truly geared towards those who lose their employment as a result of underperformance, tardiness, and layoffs. If someone loses their job in that particular situation they should be assisted, but with conditions. We should provide unemployment benefits for 6 months to a year, without renewal options, so that the individual has time to find another job. Any longer than that is somewhat weaning them away from the workforce. The more someone is handed something the more they are not willing to work for it.
