[FITZ]

The welfare rolls are way down

State and federal spending on government handout programs is really way down? Are you sure? I don't mean just TANF -- one cash handout program but all the welfare programs combined -- food stamps, WIC, government housing, Medicaid, CHIP, NAFTA-TAA, free college, SSDI and the rest? All the combined state and local "poverty" programs? I doubt social program spending is below what it was in 1960 and earlier and still accounts for over half of government spending --- which is very high currently.

[Torie]

Other than workers comp fraud, you really can't live off of all of that stuff alone. The dirty little secret is that the work ethic is alive and well in America, and more alive than ever.