If the truth is to be told, those on food stamps and welfare today are primarily children - about 48% of them as I last read. Another huge chunk are the elderly living on small Social Security checks, still more are the disabled, some are those employed for minimum wages, and finally we have the unemployed, unable to find work in a tough economy.
There are few of the slackers that the Republicans love to rant about, and there are only a few because it is a difficult life - some are probably drug addicts, others ex-convicts - you know - people who don't have many other choices. But in the eyes of the Republicans, there are a whole lot of minority people collecting welfare and living high on the hog. But it just isn't so.
One pundit I read not so long ago described the problem as a bunch of folks who can't stand to see someone else getting something they're not getting. But maybe folks on welfare aren't getting so much.
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