Our safety nets are designed to keep people on them. I saw first hand how the system works to keep people on them. I knew who had made some bad choices in life and had three children with three different men. She became almost like a third daughter to me. She could never get out of system, she found a decent job working in an eye doctor's office, not a great but a start on something. Almost immediately social service cut way back on her food stamps and child care. She actually had less for her necessities, and each raise she got the worse off she was. She ended up quitting because she was actually living better on what Social Services was giving her. i will bet my bottom dollar her story isn't any different than thousands of others. Then you have the ones living with their boyfriends and collecting welfare.