Why Welfare Doesn't Work

SEE HERE The cycle of poverty is actually facilitated by welfare. When are people going to learn. Marva Collins taught children that to give a man a fish you eat for a day, but if you teach a man to fish he can feed himself for a lifetime. She was all about personal responsibility and she brought that out often enough with another lesson: "Children, how do you eat an elephant?" "One bite at a time Mz. Collins."

Welfare is a necessary thing but it is a destructive thing. Used wrongly it only creates dependency and a sense of failure. "I can't make it on my own or I would not be on welfare." Welfare should never just be a gift. It should be compensated in some way based on the ability of the recipient to provide effort. Perhaps it should be a fee paid for learning a trade or doing some necessary task that is not too arduous for those who are handicapped. But just giving people things for nothing gives them unreasonable expectations and a false sense of entitlement. Ultimately it is destructive not only of the individuals but of the society around them.