Wow, how frustrating - as my husband works three jobs and I am cooking on the side for the holidays plus working full time - to know, that others are sucking us dry.

(Insert really mean word here).

Frances Piven suggests overloading the welfare system is the best way to bring the economy down. Obama obeys.

Those stats are two years old. How many more are on assistance now because of the economy ?

Without jobs, many are on welfare that didn't want to ask for help. SS has not kept up with inflation and seniors are reluctant to ask for food stamps. In the meantime, there are generations of single mothers milking the system along with those dropping Anchor babies to get social services.

You have to ask is Zippy giving jobs away to foreigners to keep Americans in poverty and on the dole ? Have we received our comeuppance yet ?

With hositalization running $1200 a month or more and for a family on medicaid, with a free phone, food stamps, cash stipend, help with heat and lights and rent, eye glasses and dental, a lot of people who are not on assistance make less.

The TRUTH is most welfare recipients do work, but they don't pay taxes. They either straight-out lie or they work off the books and do not report it. Hence, they collect. I know it for a fact because I have worked with many "low-income" people. Anyway, we all see the proof. Go into any inner city HS and the kids are wearing 100 dollar coats and have the latest phones and fanciest cell phone plans. Obviously, it's all getting paid for with either credit or the cash they get from their off the books jobs. These people know EVERY trick. They get fake divorced to send their kids to private college for free. You see the dad works, the mom doesn't, so the mom claims the kids. I am in the supermarket in back of someone getting 100 dollars worth of food for free. Meanwhile, the welfare recipient has long, fake nails that cost 50 dollars every few weeks to maintain. DISGUSTING!!!