Reply #42: This attitude always amazes me at the ignorance it shows

[MadHound]

People like this repeat the same old tired mantras. "Its costing us too much!" If you're worried about cost, let's look at the defense budget which takes up about half of federal spending, compared with welfare, which takes up about eight tenths of one percent of the federal budget.

Or the stereotypical view of the "welfare queen", a black, able-bodied person who makes a career out of living off of the dole. The truth is that there are more whites on welfare, and the average length of time spent on the dole is around four months.

Or the whopper of women having kids "just so they can get more welfare money". Well, actually that's not true, I read a statistic, I think in JAMA, that the birth rate for women on welfare actually declines. And didn't the per diem pay raise go out the door for welfare recipients when Clinton passed his welfare "reform"?

And yes, it seems like a lot of these complaints are made by those who are receiving SS or other public assistance:eyes:

Just ignorance in action, that's how I figure it.