It makes me mad, too. I have a very close relative who is a single mother on welfare. I have offered many times to tutor her to get her GED and offered to pay for the GED fee (so she can qualify for some training). She is just not interested. I feel bad sometimes that the government pays for her. It's not that I want her not to have benefits. But, as long as the government will pay her housing and a little food, she will not do anything to be self-sufficient, and consequently is teaching her children to perpetuate this kind of life. The government should absolutely require welfare recipients to complete GED classes and then at least spend a few hours a week earning some money so they can develop job skills.
I have family members like that. They should be required to either get a job, get their G.E.D., or go to college. They should be given 90 days to either get a job, enroll in college, or get there G.E.D. or enroll in a G.E.D. prep class. If not no aid. I don't think that is a lot to ask, we should expect more from them because they are better then the lives they are leading.