Welfare, a government program created to assist needy citizens, enables rather than rehabilitates them. There are many ways to make the welfare program a more productive and efficient program by changing welfare program managers, providing a rehabilitation program, changing welfare incentives, and establishing mandatory drug testing. The overall intent of Welfare is to provide low-income Americans, as well as children, with money to tide them over until they can get back on their feet. Yet the evidence indicates that, instead of helping children and parents, they harm them. Welfare has good intentions; it just needs guidance to show its true potential. Instead of having control of welfare programs, communities or churches should take control. Welfare recipients become too dependent on the government to provide for them. In most cases, when people go on welfare, they become too dependent on the government to provide for them. “My thesis is that, in parks as in national parks, if you have ever been there, you will have noticed a sign.” Templar's story says: “This sign says “Do not feed the animals.” They put this inscription because if people regularly feed said animals they will become too dependent and will not WORK for their food. “The government takes money from workers who contribute and gives it to citizens who don't contribute. In government, the welfare system forces people to pay for welfare so they can use the money for whatever, but frankly that's not the government's job. One problem with the welfare system and its beneficiaries is that the government fails to have strong control over the welfare program; so, getting too the... halves of the card... I would just get it for free. The social benefits outweigh those of a minimum wage job. Since the 1995 study, many welfare programs have changed, but welfare benefits continue to exceed income. In 35 states, Welfare pays more than a minimum wage job. In 13 states welfare pays more than $15 an hour. Pundits, even liberals, can't argue with the fact that simply offering employees benefits will solve their problems. Simply offering benefits to dependents will not solve their problems. The Cato Institute published a groundbreaking study in 1995. The Institute published, The Work vs. Welfare Trade-Off, which estimated the value of welfare relative to earned income. The institute found that not only did the benefits far exceed the poverty level, but their dollar value was greater than the amount of income the worker would receive from an entry-level job..