The welfare system was created before government welfare programs began. The system was created to help single mothers, children with disabilities, unemployment and underemployment. The system offers many different ways to help, such as: cash assistance, food stamps, employment assistance, and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). The system has helped many needy families and still continues to help many families. Many Americans have now begun to benefit from the system's help. So people will get help from the system and stay in it just because it's free. In the article (Why Get Off Welfare) by Michael Tanner he made a statement saying: But there is also evidence that many are reluctant to accept available job opportunities. Despite work requirements included in the 1996 welfare reform, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says fewer than 42 percent of adult welfare recipients participate in work nationwide. Why this contradiction?” As we see in the statement above, many people have taken full advantage of the program and are using it for all the wrong reasons. Herman D. Sten admitted that “our society has never trusted the poor and especially those who need to receive financial aid.” Most Americans who receive help from the system are not poor. Then there are people who repeatedly have baby after baby just to get more money in food stamps. In the book The Welfare Debate, Robert Emmet Long states that “these chronic recipients have become the real source of public concern about welfare in recent years, and rightly so.” Americans are using benefits the wrong way. This is why you should avoid relying on the welfare system because it is seen as a take away for many Americans... in the middle of the paper... and the web. March 17, 2014. “The Department of Home Affairs.” Better public services. Np, nd Web. 17 March 2014. .Lungo, Robert Emmet. The debate on welfare. New York: Wilson, 1989. Print.Sten, Herman D. “The Welfare Crisis.” The welfare crisis in Cleveland. Cleveland, Ohio: Case Western Reserve University, 1969. 10. Print.Tanner, Michael. "Welfare: A Better Deal than Work | National Review Online." National online review. Np, nd Web. March 16, 2014. Tanner, Michael. “Why abandon welfare?” Why abandon welfare?. Np, nd Web. April 2. 2014. .