Warning: If you have strong political views that you will never question, quit reading this article now.

Now that the disclaimer is out of the way, let's take a walk through your political ideas, and my two cents on a very common complaint of our government.

"Why is the government handing out all of my hard earned money?! All these welfare people are lazy and using my money to lie around all day."

News flash, if that is your opinion of everyone who draws from welfare, please, go back to the cave you've been living in and do not come out.

Are there people who misuse the welfare system? Yes. Are there people who misuse very useful prescription drugs? Yes. So, would you like to have your surgeries, without the aid of pain killers, just because some people will misuse them long after they have no more pain? Yeah, I didn't think so.

Welfare has the possibility to be misused. Everything has the possibility to be misused. I will tell you right now, some of the hardest working people I know draw from welfare, or at least need to use food stamps. Oh, and they are working more than just a minimum wage job. The fact of the matter is, if you account for student loan debt, possibly a child or a family member who needs taken care of, rent, a car payment and food, it takes a lot of money to cover all of the bases. Even if you make $12 an hour, accounting for inflation, this is not enough to get by. Now this is by no means a call for raising the minimum wage. I will not even open that can of worms, because I am not an economist, so I will not talk about what I do not know.

That being said, I know politics. I have been studying them for three years, writing countless papers and talking about it in class every day. I will tell you right now, no successful society will be able to eliminate poor people who struggle for money. It is time to quit blaming the poor people for the mistakes that those in charge have made, and start to help them with their problems. What ever happened to the idea of wanting to help those in need? When did our society become so greedy and stingy over our money that it is so hard to donate to social aid programs? Oh, and if you're getting red in the face over what I'm saying right now, here is this: The U.S spends only roughly 12 percent of the entire tax dollar collective on social aid programs. So, as you can see, barely any of your check is actually going to pay for the supposedly "lazy" people that you hate so much.

Because of the state of our country, it is not possible for some people to make ends meet. A good government realizes this; that is why we have social aid programs. They are never going away. It is simply not possible unless you want to dramatically increase the rate of crime. Yes, I do mean that when people go hungry and have nothing, they will turn to more drastic means of providing. That is simply human nature.

There is the possibility to take advantage of any program or substance out there. That does not mean that it is bad. Even the hardest working people will fall and struggle, and a good country would be there to help pick them up.

While the government might be spending your money in some stupid ways, I assure you, the welfare system is not one of those.