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Welfare is too easy. The more inconvenience there is connected to it, the more motivation there is to get off it.

I've got no problem with that.

But I don't think inconvenience is going to be the motivator, far too many people have figured out how to get around the system. My idea has nothing to do with inconvenience, rather I'm looking at education for the motivation.

There are just some people that will not do what is right unless they are forced to do so. No matter what.

I went grocery shopping with a woman I know (I no longer call her a friend, although I did at that point) and she spent $60 on frozen lasagna dinners alone. I spent $25 on the ingredients to make lasagna. Her $60 made 5 meals for her and the 2 kids (her husband can't eat it) my $25 made 10 dinners and a couple of lunches for me, my husband and daughter. Yeah, it took me an entire day to put it all together, but I still have a full pan of lasagna in the freezer.

For 3 years I offered to teach her how to cook, and when ever her kids were here at my house we always made something, whether it be an afternoon snack or dinner.

I finally gave up on the entire lot of them. The 11 year old is about 5'7" and has to weigh close to 200# and the 5yo is closer in weight to me than she is to my almost 11yo.