[Ultra Sonic 007]

Some language, but an interesting article nonetheless.

[Ultra Sonic 007]

Cracked.com ping!

[AndyTheBear]

Nineteen percent of people on AFDC (one of the most common forms of government aid) are on it for less than seven months...It shows that this part of the system is working exactly as it should.

Exactly like it should? 100% - 19% = 81%. Uhm 81% > 19% rather significantly.

[fso301]

Other types are two people cohabitating. One person works, the other person doesn’t work but collects all the entitlement benefits.

[oldbrowser]

If you education, job skills, and attitude only qualify you for a low paying job, Perhaps you should try to come to terms with that.

You built it, you own it, you can improve it.

[Thumper1960]

I can comprehend and inderstand the whole article. The system is systemically broken, intentionally.

[MNDude]

“Most of us think of a minority living in a filthy house with five kids running around while an alcoholic dad sleeps it off face down on the couch ... if there’s even a dad at all”

Haha! I’ve for to admit, I’ve pictured that exact scene myself before!

[DannyTN]

#4. People in a Temporary Emergency
#3. People Trapped in (and by) the System (No car, no phone, can’t get job to get car and phone. Or barely making it with assistance and no resources or time to get training to get a better job)
#2. People Who Have Been Trained to See It as Normal (Kids of long term welfare recipients)
#1. People Who Have No Say in the Matter (Kids handicapped and elderly)

[Ouderkirk]

70% of welfare is given to rural whites....the very ones who populate many of those seedy trailer parking lots.

[DannyTN]

The problem we have right now, is that our stupid trade policies have offshored so many jobs that a massive number of people have joined group #4. And as time goes on, they are moving into categories #3 and #2.

23% unemployment according to shadowstats.com.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

I know someone on welfare. If you saw her at the mall with her 2 high school age kids, you wouldn’t look twice. She’d look as “normal” as anyone else there. And it’s not that she doesn’t work - she does. She just doesn’t pull in enough to lift her above the “poverty line”. No real message here - other than the person standing next to you in line at the supermarket or for that matter cashing you out at the supermarket could be on some form of assistance.

[BfloGuy]

That's how they get stuck in perpetual welfare. They're using 100 percent of their time, money, and efforts to maintain this level of basic life

I see this a lot at the Post Office. Tons of people spending their time filling out and mailing the forms and documentation necessary to get and stay on welfare, Food Stamps, Disability, etc.. It becomes their job.

Just getting your kid on SSI for a supposed learning disability requires a lot of hoop-jumping. Imagine, all that energy, time, and money expended in the place of working.

Obamacare, no doubt, will add to that.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

My image - a well-dressed woman in a local Publix talking on an iphone while paying for a buggy full of groceries (including lots of expensive pre-prepared foods, wine, beer and cigarettes) with a food stamp card.

[kevkrom]

The major problem with the article is that #3 (Trapped in the system) is exactly what we on the right constantly point out as one of the main problems with welfare, only to be told we "hate poor people" when we bring it up.

As for #4 (It works for some people), a success rate of less than 20% is abysmal, especially when an equal percentage is on the dole for 5+ years.