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In my letter of resignation I said, "Welfare promotes far more dependency than it overcomes." I was naive and young. (Still am naive, just not young) The purpose of welfare is to enslave.

I was a Public Health nurse in West Baltimore in 1969 and 1970. I saw every day what shoveling War on Poverty money into that community was doing to intact families, and to single teenage girls.

Although I felt my job was important, I had an opportunity to go to Jamaica on The SS HOPE, so left Baltimore in '71. Also naive, I never dreamed that the powers-that-be would not correct the deteriorating situation of the people living in the 'ghetto' - as reporters called it then.

Apparently, building high-rise blocks of flats so girls could leave their mothers' homes and have their own apartment to raise her own fatherless children was considered success in the War.

Working married fathers were given strong encouragement to 'leave' the household: the welfare bennies added up to more than some fathers could bring home if their job was in an unskilled field.

Now, almost a half century later, I see our country falling into the same death spiral as Baltimore's poor did all those years ago. If history is an example, there might not be enough rational people in power positions to reverse the trend of sitting back and waiting for the checks to arrive. And the food, and the phones, and the special checks for extra bennies, and the subsidized housing and .....