Argumentative Essay On Food Aid Program

The United States government funds many programs, of these programs they give money to programs like Food Stamps and also U.S. Food Aid which are designated to help feed more American citizens and many other people in different countries that are experiencing poverty. With these programs that are trying to help out those who need it, the government is not seeing much of a change in the people’s lives or getting them out of poverty. The government should start to reform these programs so that they will be able to see better results. These families are having trouble feeding their families; the government can help them by reforming their programs for the better. The government will be able to see better results by helping more people in the United …show more content…
Food Aid is another program that could use reforming. This program has been helping other countries since WWII (Food Aid). To make this program better to help more people in other countries the U.S. government could directly send the money to the countries and they can buy their goods and supplies locally. This will benefit their country economically and also be helping their local business (Food Aid). Another way to reform this program, the U.S. government could also buy the goods directly from the markets in the other countries and then send them the money (Food Aid). From Food Aid they state “Transportation and shipping costs generally make U.S. Food Aid more expensive than buying food closer to the region in need.” By doing either of these regulations the U.S. government will be saving a significant amount of money that is being wasted on shipping the goods, the money that's being wasted could be used to help feed more people with the U.S. Food Aid in other countries. From Food Aid it “will not only improve the efficiency of the program but will also allow millions of more people to be reached without increasing the federal budget by one penny.” By using these ideas for reforming the U.S Food Aid programs the same amount of money will be spent, there will be no increase in the money the U.S food program receives, and with the money that’s not being spent on shipping, the money in the program will go further without any additional costs. These reforms for the …show more content…
Aid. They believe that by reforming these programs it will cost a lot more money that they don’t want to fund with the Taxpayers dollars. One proposal is to test all welfare recipients, which will cost slot to do. There are people out there that don’t want to be tested in order to be accepted into the program (Reforming the Swelling). In the Food Stamps programs there are many Americans that are receiving benefits and its costing taxpayers a lot of money (Tanner). There has been over 78 billion dollars of taxpayer money spent on these programs to help American citizens (Tanner). There is so much money being spent from the taxpayer’s pockets. The government isn't seeing much of a difference of how its helping the recipients because they haven’t seen a how its helping them rise out of poverty, their considering taking 57 million dollars (Lowry) away from the program because they are not seeing much “Bang for their Buck” (Tanner). If the government was to see a change, taking money away from the program isn't the way to go. They should reform the programs to make the programs better. Plumer states that “Both republicans and democrats have objected to the plan, saying that it would hurt U.S farmers, ships and ports.” In arguing this calm Plummer means, the Republicans and Democrats are opposed to the plan of sending money to other countries in need of assistance from U.S. Food Aid. They are