It’s extremely easy to do....simply enforce rules, regulations, laws and physical inspection requirements of anyone on welfare.
The majority of welfare recipients are “on the dole” because it’s too easy to defraud the government and get money. Furthermore, if they had to work they would lose welfare bennies that weigh far in excess of the money they would get if they actually worked.
The key to the whole thing is to ENFORCE the regulations on the books and require AN UNANNOUNCED PHYSICAL INSPECTION of their assets and living lifestyle every quarter. The key is “unannounced inspections” for they would not be able to prepare for it and many interesting things would pop up.
If they are honest they have nothing to worry about.
Another thing is that some type of stigma should be attached to welfare recipients. A simple one is to have separate checkout lines in grocery stores labeled “Paying Customers” and one labeled “Welfare Customers.”
If my lifetime observations of welfare cheats is correct, I would say that an average of 75% of all on welfare are cheats.
There is a stigma.
I am appalled at all of you “Freepers” who want to pick on the “poor” during this current economic crisis. I am NOT like you. You make my blood run cold. It could be you next week, don’t you see that?
Personally, I don’t think better big government is a conservative argument.