So far, for him at least, ending welfare has been another way of continuing the same old life.

President Clinton too has vowed to "end welfare as we know it."

But, hey, if that is a something you like, perhaps we can end welfare too.

The only sure way to end welfare as we know it, he added, is "just to dump the children on the streets."

If that is the case, ending welfare may mean less, too.

In the 1992 Presidential campaign, he promised to "end welfare as we know it."

Even the President, however, has promised to end "welfare as we know it" without facing up to the cost of trying.

A plan to end welfare would seem to have unlimited appeal.

I asked her what would happen if the country simply ended welfare.

Congress has ended welfare as we know it for poor Americans.