Reply #51: Those who truly CANNOT help themselves would be a

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short list: the elderly, the mentally and physically disabled, orphaned children. The states would have no problem taking care of just those people, particularly if we weren't burdened with all of the federal taxes, and I think that they should.

The problem comes from "helping" not those who cannot help themselves, but those who just don't. There are plenty of able bodied people collecting welfare, and this is bullshit. Those people do not deserve dime one from me or you. They could work, but they don't because they know that the government will take care of them. And they are just going to continue to be a drain on society until we refuse to support them any longer.