| Welfare should be abolished outright. If people can not find a way to subsist on their own, they perhaps they will die out and society will be the better for it. For people who honestly can not work, the social security system should take care of that. Education incentive programs should be enhanced affording free education for those who will benefit, but otherwise can not afford it. However, such education systems should function so they don't produce high school (or even college) graduates who can't even read.
I agree with the notion that the best way out of poverty is through education and true initiative on the part of the individual. What I abhore are systems that allow people to continue to live without working on a perpetual basis (like the current welfare system).
A message to poor unwed mothers - don't get pregnant in the first place. If you made a mistake once, for God's sake don't make anymore babies! |