Again my friend, you treat the symptoms and not the ROOT CAUSE which is the way welfare is structured (another post later perhaps), but a typical "big government" socialist type mindset. Let's start a poverty fighting program (welfare in 1965), then when we get unintended consequences such as exponential birth rates to unwed women, STD's, crime rates, dropout rates, etc., we can come up with 45 programs to treat all those horrid situations that came about because of a failed, ill-structured program. Yes, let's grow the "governement" even more and take care of everything; because someone will be without something sometime. Why don't we all just pay 85% of what we make and then, guess what, that won't be enough either because the "government" can never make up the gap between personal motivation, incentives, etc. Why don't we teach ethics and good morals (as a generic platform) in our schools to help abate the "mindset" of just do whatever I want and the "government" will pay for it. Why, because ill aimed organizations think that anything that has to do with those items are "religious" with is total bunk! That my friend is a ROOT CAUSE factor in our current situation that will NEVER be solved by the "GOVERNMENT" - which is comprised of you and I and all the hardworking folks out there who take responsibility for their own actions. Do we "cut off the faucet" all at once - NO - but we can start. Oh by the way, LBJ's War on Poverty, it hasn't changed the poverty rate for the good in this country for decades; it has only exacerbated the problem. Again, the UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF ILL AIMED COMPASSION.