I live in Australia at the moment. I'm Canadian and lived there until a couple of years ago. Right-wingers in both countries also whine about the same thing (indeed, there was a big "crackdown" on it in Oz a bit back). In both countries, and in yours, they are wrong, and statistics consistently back that up. There is not a substantial portion of the populace who willingly take welfare and don't try to work - a few individuals yes, but they are statistically insignificant. Most people want to work, both for personal pride reasons and because you really can't have a good living on welfare. When there is a large percentage of people on welfare in an area, it is because there is not a lot of jobs in the area. That is the only reason.
The vast reams of welfare queens taking MAH TAX DOLLARS don't actually exist - they are figments of the imagination of people who are more concerned with the concept that someone somewhere is cheating the system then they are with how well the system works for honest people.
The vast reams of welfare queens taking MAH TAX DOLLARS don't actually exist - they are figments of the imagination of people who are more concerned with the concept that someone somewhere is cheating the system then they are with how well the system works for honest people.