Welfare

The primary purpose of welfare is to keep the peace. For hungry, desperate and despairing people are dangerous. So welfare has been used to placate people and take away their initiative.

Unfortunately over generations what has occurred is a new way of life, passed on from generation to generation. Hunting and gathering activities have now been focused on how and where to get hand outs. It is the new skill set of the lower class.

The ability to get social services is an important part of civilized societies. The administration of the services is what allows the service to either be a value to the society or what leads to its eventual down fall.

These services after a short period of time should come with a price, payment through work. The payment made real time with the work. Those on welfare would do community work, possibly cleaning schools, tending community gardens, cleaning and caring for parks. Children could be rewarded with morning breakfast at school for completion of homework, proper behavior to get lunch. Earning builds self esteem and initiative.

The gap between the haves and have nots is not increasing because of the greed of the rich, but rather the good intentions of the compassionate that are disabling a growing population segment who see welfare as their new way of life.

It is time to give people their self esteem back.