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"""They have sold food stamps, sold blood, skipped meals, shoplifted""

Funny... If they put this much effort into finding and keeping a job, they would have no money problems at all...

Funny how people will funnel their activity to illegal activities, rather than taking a real job to support their families!!!

You mean welfare for the "little people"...see the Wilf Stadium plan for the flip side of the coin.

This is what they meant by compassionate conservatism? What does Jesus think of all of this? Read your bible, the answer is there over and over again.

What's happened is they've hopped onto the SSI/Disability train. Conditions that are very easy to fake such as fibromyalgia, Traumatic Brain Injury (the actual definition is very vague), ADHD, OCD, anxiety, personality disorders - many of them are using their own kids as pawns. They get their kid to act up, they document everything, then get some naive doctor to sign off and head straight to an attorney and claim 'my kid is disabled!'. Recently I met a 28-year-old who was labelled ADHD at age 10, never followed-up on, and has never graduated high school, never registered for selected service, never had a job (not even volunteering), and has gotten these disability checks regularly since 18. My question is, if he is truly 'ADHD' (he's not), why is he not on medication? Why is he not seeing a therapist? Why doesn't he have a regular physician who verifies that he still, in fact, suffers form ADHD? If you want to know where all your taxpayer money goes, it's not necessarily to 'welfare' proper, but to Social Security scams that allow 18-40 year olds to live like little old ladies in Section 8 high rises. Only difference being that those little old ladies worked for years and years for a small monthly check during old age, while these people have never done a thing in their lives, and are expecting to live like this forever. Get ready to support these people for the next 40-60 years. What are they going to do once their little scam is exposed?

I guess when a country is 16 trillion and going to 20 trillion in debt, these cuts are only the beginning. The cuts will be massive and the protests many. And throw in the devalue of the dollar, I'd be worried plenty. Also, all you libs out there with your kids gone and on their own, and with bedrooms to spare, aren't you taking in single moms to help them out?

Keep cutting, those of us working are tired of the free handouts. You want more of something, subsidize it, you want less, you cut. Simple economics.

"One in four low-income single mothers nationwide -- about 1.5 million -- is jobless and without cash aid. That is twice the rate they found under the old law." - WAY TO GO REPUBLICANS! - You've surely fixed that!

totaltruth: Do you happen to have one of these "real jobs" to offer? Talk is so cheap.

The government had no choice but to cut back welfare. I worked in an welfare office in south Chicago that had , at one point, 62 % of its people on welfare. Nobody wanted to work because the benefits were so good. In those days the more children you had the higher your benefits. This led to girls having children just to get more benefits. It was a maddening cyle.

That's why I've always recommended a one-year limit on welfare. I could see an extension to two years if the recipient entered *and completed* a job training program. Have more kids? Tough luck - *your* tough luck.