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It's incredible the way you start the story in the middle, as if there's a predestined amount of poverty, a predest ined amount of unemployment, and that the welfare system is not itself in any way responsible for that. There is a predestined 20% of the bottom half of the population. I have never, well, that's always been true. There's going to be 20% at the bottom. It's also true that 20% of the bottom population doesn't have to be living on the government and ruled by the government. You mentioned, for example, the female-headed household. Many of those, in addition to the grown woman who has all the kids, are teenage pregnancies. There's not a predestined amount of teenage pregnancy. I grew up in an era when people, and particularly blacks, were a lot poorer than today, faced a lot more discrimination than today, and in which the teenage pregnancy rate was a lot lower than today. I don't believe there was a predestined amount of teenage pregnancy, a predestined amount of husband desertion. Gutman has done a study of the black family, showing that this whole notion that the black family has always been disintegrating, that that is nonsense. His studies go up to 1925. The great bulk of black families were intact. Two-parent families up through 1925, and going all the way back through the era of slavery. So it is now only within our own time that we suddenly see this inevitable tragedy, which the welfare system says is going to rush into Saul.