I yesterday expounded on social welfare.  Let me add a final editorial, the matter of the   child tax credit , which will be excised when Biden and Manchin next year agree on the  Build Back Better Act that will end up being close to $1.8 trillion .  I don't want to go into the details of that child tax credit, which you can read here.   But is basically a transfer of money from the rich to the masses.  I think we need to adjust our charitable and social welfare programs to consider family well-being.  With aid to parents should be some compelling motivational incentive.  The whole matter of  entitlements  is at the foundation of what has to be re-thought out. Finally, unmentioned is that this type of government aid only further exacerbates  population growth , which will more and more strain the resource limits available in the world. Compound this factor with the contribution to poverty for families who can't afford children.  In the U.S. there is no effort to limit populatio