[Dane]

Dane, give it up. The above is total crap. It would still be crap lite if you had said, the Tancredo types get all hot and bothered about illegal Hispanics getting welfare, but are quiet about Anglos abusing the welfare system.

Huh?

Get back to me when you start a thread with vitriol spewing about white Appalchians on the welfare teet.

[Torie]

Part of the "problem" is that CLinton signed a welfare reform bill that really did make huge strides in mitigating the problem. Thus the issue ceases to have much salience. I agree however with the notion that Hispanics are not coming here for welfare per se. They are coming here to work, and of course, part of the attraction of the job at far higher wages than available in Mexico, is the attendant social safety net.