[HelloooClareece]

I think that's the point. The able-bodied in this country have figured out that they can sit at home and drag a check every month. Meanwhile, farmers in this country cannot find people to bring in their crops. Instead of worrying about this group of people who work their tails off let's worry more about the able bodied who refuse to work. They are far more worthy of our scorn.

[dufekin]

Let's face facts here: under the insidious subsidized decadence and failure of public welfare, a person gets more compensation (cash and benefits like food stamps and Medicaid) NOT to work [legally, leading many to pursue under-the-table careers as drug dealers and prostitutes] than to work legitimately. A mother gets more compensation to bear the children of unknown and disparate fathers than to remain married and cohabitated with the father of her first child.

The federal government, through its arcane public-welfare system, actively encourages and indeed subsidizes impoverished (especially black) fathers to abandon their wives and take up a life of crime. Perhaps the object of our scorn then should be the Johnson Administration officials who initiated this craziness in a War on Poverty that we would call better a "war on the morality of impoverished families and families of color" and the odious Congress-critters who perpetuate this subsidized failure every year.