What is the point in having welfare if it isn't actually helping the cause that it is supposed to be helping. The fact that while being on the system the ranks of the poor have continued to increase proves that this system isn't doing any good. We are wasting money that could be spent on better things other than people who may or may not be choosing not to work. http://www.thenewamerican.com/economy/economics/item/17367-welfare-hits-record-levels-after-50-years-of-war-on-poverty Website says- -"poverty levels remain largely unchanged..." -"in 1964 almost 9 out of 10 men were<br> employed, by 2012 less than three-fourths of adult males had jobs." -"...$20 trillion spent, no sign of victory in sight..." -""war" on poverty has been a miserable failure."