If you would have read my other post you see what I was getting at. Our welfare system is designed to keep people on system instead of helping them to get off. The example I wrote about is where anyone trying to get off are penalized every time they start getting ahead. They get an entry level position and immediately their assistance is reduced. They get a small raise and then their babysitting assistance gets taken away. Now they are faced with reality, continue to work 40 to 50 hours a week and at the end of the week they have the same, and in some cases even less, then if they would have quit work and just stayed home with their children. Now if we could get the people who are totally misusing these benefits out of system we would have the funds necessary to give the young lady I knew and the thousands more just like her, a fighting chance to get out of the system.