Then why the need to shame those who really need the help by posting their names and addresses on a website?
unfortunately, there is a huge segment of people who think they are entitled to a life of leisure bought for them by the hard-working taxpayers...those are the bloodsuckers I want to ‘shame’, as you put it.
But that's not the plan. Apparently anyone who is on the "dole", as he puts it, is a bloodsucker and gets their name on the website. Welfare-scamming parasite? On the website. Genuine needy mother with small kids drawing assistance? On the website. Working mother getting foodstamps for her children? On the website. Drawing unemployment? On the website. Ninety years old with Alzheimers and in a nursing home paid for by Medicaid? On the website. This does nothing to go after those who are scamming the system. It's a deliberate attempt to keep anyone from applying for any assistance at all. And I guess that going after everyone is easier than trying to find the minority who are cheating the system.
You make a very good point; I would prefer that the government use resources to root out those who are scamming the welfare system, but they are not going to do that, as they depend on them for votes/support to stay in power. Also, if they are not means-testing welfare recipients, how do you know that they are a minority? Finally, as I’m sure you know, one of the first laws of economics is that the more you subsidize something, the more you will get of it; conversely, the more you penalize (i.e. tax) something, the less you will get of it. Today in America we penalize the hard-working and productive through progressive taxation, while subsidizing indolence nad laziness through a too-generous welfare system. People who actually need public assistance probably realize that the scammers are hurting them as much as anybody; my guess is many of them would not be averse to ‘outing’ the scammers by publishing their names (NOT addresses or other personal information) on a website. And if you don’t like this idea, what would you do to stop the cheating? It’s infuriating.