when i we want to go live back with my family in brooklip, i was a child of welfare. i was a child, you know, of this or that. and certain policies allowed me to better myself because i wanted better and i knew i was better, you know, and it's not like we are like, oh, poor me. can i have a handout? no. can you just help me a little bit and i will do the hard work. >> that's what i mean about policy. it's fantastic. >> do you think there are enough social safety nets today and those same things for children that height be in similar situations? or do you think that's somewhat being disassembled? >> it has somewhat been disassembled. i mean here we are in a group home upstate new york right next to the ibm country club estates. not too shabby. you know, and i am privy to the middle to upper middle class lifestyle. is that here today? no. there are so many cut backs. >> what child today can go get a job that's subsidused by the government and they can have a paycheck and learn how to have their own bank account and so on? it's not there. what has gotten better is child