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Using the Reagan "welfare Cadillac queens" and "junkies and baby factories" type anecdotes is dishonest and disingenuous...and years out of date.
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The problem is that it's not just AFDC or TANF that gets milked this way. Talk to my neighbors; these imbiciles will -brag- about the ways they scam Social Security/Disability ("back problems" that don't prevent them from lifting heavy loads, putting up several tonnes of hay every fall, or participating in lawn-mower races, closed head injuries that somehow just keep re-occurring every year, "accidental" injuries of various superficial kinds, etc), Medicare/Medicaid (claim injuries as before, treat the pain with Johnny Walker and Nyquil, sell the prescription 'meds), WIC (get monthly supplement, buy stuff, -resell- stuff at a profit* to friends and family, plow profits into more booze/drugs/toys), etc...to say nothing of the scams people will run on a Church or private Charity. To these people, scamming their way into more of -your- money is a -good- thing, something to boast about! And they do!
And while you're correct that AFDC doesn't actually work that way anymore, plenty of people still try to game the system that way because that's how it worked for the past several generations. One family on my street saved up $500.00 worth of their meth money and used it to pay a Mexican tree-trimmer to
impregnate Grammaw; a 55yr-old harridan who looked like a 98yr-old pregnant Treblinka survivor, in order to get more welfare money. They were -most- displeased when they were informed that although the child would probably get SS/D (due to the likelihood of birth defects being borne to a 55yr-old meth addict with chronic malnourishment issues), no further AFDC would be forthcoming.
Yes, there are still plenty of welfare queens, junkies, and baby factories out there, I promise. I live next door to 'em.
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the truth is that no one is living it up on welfare. no one. welfare is a pitiful sum of money for anyone to live on, and though your assistance goes up with children, it's still paltry.
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BS. When you cram 5-10 people into one double-wide, and they're all drawing $1400+/mo from various State assistance programmes, that adds up QUICK, especially when you supplement -that- income by selling prescription meds, cooking methamphetamine, and various sorts of petty theft and fraud.
*Which, since they didn't pay for it anyway, means that "a profit" could be had by selling $8.00 ribeye steaks for $2.00 apiece. Lots of local morons do a brisk business this way, using WIC to buy up a truckload of expensive grub, which they then resell at a fraction of its' market value.