Welfare (as designed by congressional Democrats) has destroyed millions of Black American families. Which their own Patrick Moynihan told them it would do. Coming from a fatherless home is the number one predictor of juvenile delinquency. Hundreds of (Democrat controlled for 50 years) inner cities are plagued by crime, drugs, and the worst schools in the country. American taxpayers have spent more than 20 trillion dollars on welfare since the War on Poverty began. And if anything, our inner cities are more troubled and inner city residents are more poorly educated than previously. Welfare should be workfare for able bodied adults. Anything else is a continual insult to the recipients. Norway, while having a high per capita wealth, has an astonishingly high cost of living. Norway also utilizes its energy resources for wealth. Norway also has healthy young nicely dressed adults shamelessly sitting on sidewalks begging for money. I don't want that for my descendants.