@PakkonenCT @CSB @melodiousowls A person with part time work is far more likely to improve themselves then someone stuck at home on lifetime welfare. the main thing that I think welfare needs to accomplish is to get people off zero. If you have zero you can achieve nothing.
Also people sometimes run into some really bad luck. And when the ahi really hits the fan, $100 in your bank account will allow you to eat without having to spend a week lining up at the unemployment office filling in forms.