A Possible Future Without Benefits
- Author: Mary Singleton
- Posted: 2025-12-06
Could the United States of America become a nation where welfare benefits and social security become a thing of the past? In recent weeks, many economic experts have been warning that this is America's current trajectory, and people may not ever be able to retire, while the poorest American citizens will simply be forced to fend for themselves. This is a combination of America spending over $10 trillion in the past year in strictly benefits and not wealth-producing measures, along with the fact that the Biden administration is spending more money on every single man, woman and child to enter this nation illegally than they are on 8 American citizens. In other words, one illegal immigrant receives more federal assistance than 8 citizens combined. Economists are calling this entirely unsustainable.
According to some experts in the field, America's biggest problem, more than its spending and more than its waste, is the belief held by America's politicians that the USA is somehow special and is not subject to the basic laws of economics. As we witnessed in Greece, for example, a once-thriving western economy became over-extended with swaths of immigration and huge social security (equivalent) packages for its existing citizens. Within three years of opening the nation's gates to refugees and immigrants, Greece's entire economy crashed to the levels that the Great Depression wreaked havoc on the world a century ago. Greece was a relatively contained economy, so its effects weren't felt that far outside the country. However, for the country itself, it still hasn't recovered and needs to be bailed out every year - by countries like America, by the bye.
That's another sticking point for a lot of economists who see America's vast system of benefits as entirely unsustainable. For instance, a lot of northwestern European countries like to look down on America for not having universal healthcare. However, what they leave out of the mathematical equation is the fact that America provides these countries with tens of billions of dollars for their defense and their armed forces. Essentially, America bears the full weight of NATO, and it's the American coffers from which spring the endless revenue streams to keep these other countries safe-guarded. Then we get to nations like Israel, which take billions upon billions of dollars in welfare from America every single year.
Add to that America's own military spending, and the over $1 trillion it spends every single year on welfare programs in-country, and you're looking at the supposed "richest nation" in the world just accumulating nothing but pure debt because all it does is support everyone else.
There's always a push among American citizens to have America provide "healthcare for all." They scream it at rallies. They protest about it in college. They call and write their representatives to make it happen. Though a question some economists ask: From where does the money come to pay for this? Should it be taken out of the NATO budget? Or perhaps the UN budget? Should we stop sending foreign aid to Israel and Africa and the Middle East, so that we can pay for this? Activists clam up and don't have an answer. They demand America spend more, not simply rearrange their spending. And with a Biden administration spending more in less than a year than the last 10 Presidents combined, some are scared for the country's future.
Americans Hit Hardest
Republican or Democrat, conservative or liberal, the one thing every American politician has in common is that the average American citizen is ignored entirely in favor of foreign nations and foreign nationals. It's one thing they all agree on: The immigrant coming into this nation deserves a house, a business loan, free college, and free healthcare. The person who was born a citizen and works hard? Not as much. These people are used as nothing but debt machines, it would seem, spending their lives paying off interest for the things they needed to purchase just to live a life. Rampant homelessness and poverty among Americans doesn't cause America's politicians to blink an eye. People coming from India or Guatemala, however, causes the government to throw money at them like a game show.
The end result is something that many economists fear is inevitable: A point in time where no one will be able to get benefits, because America will be flat broke. They fear a future where the supposed richest nation in the world won't be able to pay for anything.
