The most important lesson in this story is that welfare dependency knows no race nor ethnicity - in the US it’s largely (though not exclusively) blacks and hispanics who fall into the statist trap; in Britain, it’s only taken a generation or two to suck in the lower echelons of the white population.
A dirty little secret of the liberal do-goooders is that they don’t really think blacks can make it on their own, and so they draw much of the minority population into a continual cycle of welfare dependency, all the while congratulating themselves on their compassion. And with the current administration, providing record numbers of people food stamps and never-ending unemployment benefits, it won’t be long before that culture of dependency seeps out of the ghettos, barrios and white-trash trailer parks into much of middle America.
In this very white state SSDI is known as white man’s welfare.
I cannot begin to tell you how many people have been eased into nonproductivity here. I think more are at home than are working.
Me? I teach my kids to not earn a lot and to barter and grow food so they wont have to support these losers.