Let's start with welfare, no one unless they are physcally unable to work should be on welfare more than 6 mnonths. and children are not a henderance, if they are stop having them.
The only people who should be recieving government assistancew are the elderly children who have lost their parents, and if you have fallen on hard times at no fault of your own such as layoff's from your job. You have lifer's in the system that able to work.
Social Security is not an entitlement program, it's more like a saving's account it's your money
I can't disagree with your complaint but the problem rests in identifying those who are categorically unworthy of receiving public assistance and may be
productively removed from the rolls.
I'm not sure if the same rule is still in force but the New York City Department of Welfare adopted a rule back in the seventies or eighties which held that if a woman became pregnant and gave birth while receiving public assistance there would be no increase in her monthly subsistence allotment and no post-natal aid. That
productive ruling came about as the result of a cost reduction study by newly-elected Mayor Koch.
I recall that one of the findings of that study was the cost (including salaries, benefits and pension projections) of hiring the number of case-workers and investigators needed to identify most unnecessary and fraudulent disbursements would
counterproductively exceed the estimated amount of unnecessary and fraudulent disbursements.
Another
counterproductive approach to reduction of disbursement referred to the category of welfare recipients who
appear to be employable but in fact are not for reasons ranging from mental deficiency and severe sociopathology to extensive criminal background. It is believed that if such individuals are deprived of assistance they will resort to crime to survive and in addition to the suffering of their victims the cost of arresting, trying and imprisoning those who are apprehended would substantially exceed the public assistance disbursement.
That is a Catch-22 worthy of considering. Because aside from welfare or prison the only other alternative where certain dysfunctional members of society are concerned is genocide. And I'll ask what your thoughts are about that.