"Dimitri" > wrote
> I think if you wish to solve the problem you are going to have to reverse
> the climate started by President Lynden Johnson. Although it created a
> wonderful social safety net, it also unfortunately created a welfare
> culture in some parts of our society.

That crippled at least three generations of Americans. Clinton's welfare
reforms were a step in the right direction and actually pretty harsh in my
opinion. But they reduced the welfare rolls.