DISQUS

J. Anne · 10 months ago

You gotta be kidding me? Welfare? We don't need welfare we need hard working and innovative Americans who can admit to (and then kick ) their addiction to instantaneous satisfaction. Buckle down and be in it for the long haul because no welfare program or spendulus package from Washington is going to bring anyone anything of value without earning it. Welfare? No thanks.

Lyn · 10 months ago

The welfare reform passed in 1996 WAS NOT passed because of false stereotypes. It was passed because after decades of abuse the majority of people were sick and tired of it and their elected officials responded accordingly. "Basic welfare" needs to be stigmatized. Eligibility requirements needs to be tightened, not loosened, because America has a permanent underclass of rotters that is growing too large to support.

"The bailout bonanza" - a useful term to distract Americans that's all it is. The heart of America's problem is its permanent underclass that continues to live off the rest of us. They are the same group who defaulted on high risk mortgages and HUD mortgages because Democrats forced banks to lend to their sorry asses.