Social Services in America

Our government agencies and social security services run on a bureaucratic timeline. It is like a Franz Kafka novel. Papers have to be processed, once you get to the head of the line you are told to go wait in another line and then you will be seeing your check in the mail in the next 3 to 8 weeks. This timeline does not work people who are trying to live on a two minimum wage jobs with four children. Obviously many people in impoverished situations cannot afford to wait. They therefore are dissuaded from participating in the social services the US government provides and resort to taking payday advances, taking out a credit to pay the bills, and finding other quick fixes that ultimately end up making them more in debt. Our capitalist system in the United States is not out to help the common good. It is designed to take advantage of those with less and support those with too much already. For some reason socialism has a bad name in our country. But things like public education, social security checks, Medicaid are all rooted in socialist ideas. I feel like a lot of our social services that promote health, education and food are pushed to the back in the government’s agenda. Therefore these services are not as well known or accessible to people who need them most. There are resources out there for people but they have to go to tremendous lengths to reach them. Our poor are getting poorer because of this system. Capitalist systems are taking from them while social services are just out of grasp leaving people and families in the middle with nothing.