There's the rub, isn't it. Things started to change in the minds of people and in the actions of the government a little bit resulting in the 1994 Republican takeover of the Houses with Welfare Reform signed by President Clinton.

Like everything else, even though this started to scale back and decrease the numbers on welfare, it was eventually forgotten and many more bills diluting that reform and more bills escalating entitlements were passed and enacted when the Democrats gained back their legislative control coupled with the short attention span of the American voter.

People say "When you're in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging", but we never seem to learn when the liberals, and their accomplices in the media, inundate us with stories of the "less fortunate" and images of people sleeping in the street, and pregnant women on lines at food pantries. Many take these stories and images at face value and ignore what is the underlying cause of these individuals distress. Some people are victims of circumstance and some are products of their own demons and/or indolence.

We've been throwing money at this problem for 60 years or more with little effect. Isn't it about time for another idea?