Why Not Just Take Away Welfare?

I yield to no one in my belief that welfare is counter productive. I think most o these programmes are very wrong headed. But you can't just take away the support and tell people to pull themselves up by the boot boot straps if they don't have any bootstraps. The ones that always strike me as quite bizarre because they come from kind of, often weird conglomerations of public policies colliding into each other. California is one of many states that has very strict asset tests for many of these rules. That says that if you spend all your welfare check, ah, that we're fine with if at the end  at the end of the week, you've got your welfare