Originally Posted By: Krijack
Welfair, in general, is in the form of aid to dependent children. In some ways, we are employing the parent or parents to raise the children. Do we really want to pay a bunch of druggies to raise children? The thought is that they are stealing from their children by cashing in the aid they get to buy drugs, thereforth putting the children at risk and defrauding the public in general.


That's only true if you assume that most people on welfare are drug addicts. But I don't believe the statistics will back you on that. If you'd check, I think you'd find that most people on welfare are sngle mothers who collect benefits on average of less than two years. They then enter the workforce like everyone else.
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