Which is also the point. When you can have a better standard of living (starting out) on welfare than working unskilled labor, many choose to stay on welfare. Now, if you invest in yourself and get some skills, you will be able to move up the ladder, but as many in the manufacturing states have found you can wake up one day and find your plant is moving to China or India. Like or not, all those jobs being lost do have an effect on politics.
Meant to ping you to 64. Don't agree with you all the time, but you do bring up valid points.
You're making my head spin. Let's just get rid of welfare. problem solved, right? Good luck with that. Let me know how it works out.