The argument to that is quite easy. For generations, many of us know that hard work pays dividends. and For generations, there is no work in the ghetto, welfare is the only way to survive. Those who sell their food stamps, and all the other things are the minority. In their environment perhaps that's no more serious then fudging on your income tax a bit??? If we hear of isolated cases, then everyone on welfare must be doing it? That assumption is based on stereotyping, and stereotyping is more often then nut very inaccurate. Just where would you put people to work? A plan like Jerry suggested would be great, but also very expensive and would cause existing business to lose work. There is no easy or quick solution. If living in the projects and living on welfare is all you've grown up with, and you are completely surrounded by it....where is the incentive or even the reasoning to think it is possible to do anything else??? Easy to say what we would do, but then we haven't spent our entire life in poverty either.....

It would seem that we all are products of our environment, regardless of what environment we come from....