Many of our major cities have been controlled by those who push welfare as a way of controlling the people. While they claim to be helping people, they create serious problems that create frustration and anger. Until recent welfare reform, welfare made people dependent and discouraged recipients from developing their abilities to help themselves. In addition, welfare required that the husband leave the family before they could get welfare unless he was disabled, which tore families apart. While welfare reform now puts limits on how long people can be on welfare and tries to encourage self-support, it has had to overcome three generations of families dependent on welfare. Many welfare recipients have never known anyone in their family who supported themselves and wasn’t on welfare. It is hard to overcome that.