The new welfare reform bill is only a small step towards solving the welfare problem and its attendant social destructiveness.

The final objective needs to be a major reduction in welfare needs and irresponsible behavior and caring for these reduced needs by adequate private charity. Because there will always be physically and/or mentally handicapped people who are unable to obtain adequate employment and take care of themselves there will always be the need for some welfare. There will also be people who due to circumstances will be temporarily in need of assistance till they can provide for themselves. Fortunately the number of truly needy is quite modest and can be handled by private charity with reasonable tax incentives. The question is not whether we need welfare but what is the best and most constructive way to provide it.

Able bodied citizens are on welfare do to various causes and all of these causes must be dealt with or we will remain in the government welfare quagmire.

1. Most importantly there must be employment opportunities available..
   
2. All able bodied citizens must have marketable skills of some kind so they can take advantage of the opportunities. Marketable skills can be of a higher level such as the trades of carpentry, electrician, plumber or mechanic or as basic as, simple assembly work, painting, carpet and window cleaning and other more menial tasks. These latter skills require less than average intelligence. The point is that all the unemployed need not be put through months of expensive training to make them employable.
   
3. We must stop people, who do not have adequate resources to properly raise children, from having children. Especially teenage girls that do not have the financial, emotional or mothering skills to properly raise their offspring.
   
4. All citizens must be taught that it is not societies or governments responsibility, but THEIR own responsibility, to provide for themselves. Societies responsibility ends in helping people provide for themselves.

Most chronic social and welfare problems are concentrated in our large inner city ghettos that do not participate in a normal healthy economy because these areas are no longer attractive places for businesses to locate.

What sensible businessman would invest in plant and equipment where a riot might destroy it, crime compromise it and where the pool of workers is untrained and poorly motivated to work? We cannot attract businesses into these inner cities until we accomplish the following:

1. First and primary we must reduce crime and eliminate the threat of destructive rioting. Businesses must have assurance of safety for themselves, their employees and their property. This will require tough policing by police trained and recruited from the local citizenry. We must create a community of interest rather than a community of them against us.

2. Taxes on businesses must be held to a minimum and if possible less than areas outside the inner city to work as an financial incentive for businesses to locate in the inner city.

3. Technical Training Centers must be set up to train the local citizens in the job skills needed by local industry. The only way we can be sure that the proper skills are taught is by having the training curriculum set by the industries they will serve. Marketable skills can be of a higher level such as the trades of carpentry, electrician, plumber or mechanic or as basic as, simple assembly work, painting, carpet and window cleaning and other more menial tasks. These latter skills require less than average intelligence. The point is that all the unemployed need not be of high intelligence or put through months of expensive training to make them employable and self sufficient.

   Unless we assure businesses of personal and property security, attractive taxes and a pool of skilled and motivated employees they can not provide the essential employment opportunities we need in our inner cities.

We will never break the welfare cycle until we break the dependency and irresponsibility cycle caused by government support of women having children they ill equipped to properly raise. This country is suffering more from an excess than a shortage of population.

Society has no obligation to finance irresponsible and destructive behavior by some of it’s citizens. Having a child is one of the most serious and important responsibilities a women undertakes in her entire life. How well she assumes her parenting roll effects the life time success of the child and the social health of society. Many of these children are being subject to life time abuse do to not being properly raised and nurtured. This is the worst kind of child abuse and must be treated as such. Modern society has been negligent in not treating child rearing with the importance that it requires. A shop lifter is more a minor irritant to society than any threat to societies long term viability and when caught spends time in jail. A women can give birth to a multitude of children that are raised by street gangs into violent unconscionable antisocial citizens that are a danger to themselves and society. And instead of jail time she receives a welfare check, food stamps, free medical care and a low rent apartment.

Having children without the personal, financial and family resources to properly raise them, is child abuse of the worst kind, is destructive of society and should not be tolerated. This should be considered as criminal conduct the same as any other form of child abuse or anti social conduct. Government should provide birth control assistance but not support women having children they cannot raise properly. Many religious groups will object to this and for them I say - fine - then you support these women and their irresponsible behavior. The children of irresponsible women should be put up for adoption or be put in an orphanage and the mothers appropriately punished for child abuse and antisocial behavior.

All citizens must be taught that it is not societies or governments responsibility to but THEIR own responsibility to provide for themselves. Societies responsibility ends in helping people provide for themselves. How do we teach this? We teach this by not providing automatic welfare programs and government entitlements that encourage indolence, fraud and irresponsibility. Instead we should require that they seek temporary assistance from private welfare agencies which will insist that they make every reasonable effort to become self sufficient.