If there was a reason to avoid welfare its that! Once this economy gets really and I mean REALLY out of hand, they'll take every welfare bum and render them into dog food. By this time the left will be in total control and the media and the so called "rights" groups wont say a word about it.
Whenever I think of occupy wall street and Zuccoti park, I think of a Churchill quote about appeasement and crocodiles. Whether the pampered brats there knew it or not, they were setting themselves up for chow.
The Purge in Russia wasn't people out of work. They where paid professionals. Doctors, lawyers, teachers and the like.
Marx said it best. To control the masses you must destroy the rich and the poor. Engels made that clear regarding the when he said in war to destroy the poor.