Dynamic Issues of Uncertainty in Our American Government

Melissa Brumfield
Temple College
English 1301
Dr. Illich
April 9, 2011.
Dynamic Issues of Uncertainty in Our American Government
Social welfare policy is an area that needs much improvement. This is based on the fact that, since depression was experienced, there has been tremendous growth in America. While, the government legitimacy involvement in the economy has not received serious challenges for more than five decades a go. As a result, there has been no "setting of proper scope of the public support net provided by the government has proven to be extremely controversial. Compared to other industrialized democracies, support for social welfare programs in the United States is much thin and ephemeral," (Berinsky 278).
One fact that has led to lots of controversial nature of welfare state in the US is the American Ethos. There are two contradicting values that are held by the Americans; democratic and capitalism. There have been various predictions on the role played by the two contradicting values on the social welfare policy opinion determination. However, the impacts of value conflict on opinion types formed by individuals on social policy have not been constant across the American population.
Both the liberals and democrats have to handle the natives Americans in Americans` culture of politics. However, ambivalences and inconsistency in social welfare policy are not found with equal kind of frequency in the entire population. It has been argued by liberals that, they have to "reconcile their humanitarian democratic impulses with the capitalist impulses towards individualism and limited government," (Berinsky 279). As a result, liberals have to make a balance between equally significant but contradicting values in their evaluation of social welfare policy programs. As an effect, such mix of contradicting values has led most Americans to be confused in their political judgments. On the other hand, conservatives have been opposing social welfare policy while endorsing opportunity equity, other than economic equality of results. As an effect, conservatives are going for the single value and not to harm themselves due to value conflicts as liberals do.
The second point is that, apart from larger political culture, social welfare supporters also suffer from; they also suffer from resource and services inequalities. The latter is much important in making individuals informed about politics, which is much significant in enabling individuals to resolve value conflicts. A part from that, it also enables one to have a higher basic level in the reduction of...