[Sequoyah101]

Can anyone total up, line-by-line, the “assistance” that a typical dependent of the state with two children and a non-working baby daddy are “entitled” to?

Welfare
Medicade
Section 8 housing
WIC
Food stamps
Chilren care
Energy assistance

How much and what else?

[WayneM]

I belive there is also free or heavily subsidised cell phone service. Anyone else heard of this?

[Brent Calvert 03969-030]

free cell phones and service, $10 a month high-speed internet access, free meals at schools, free public transportation, free legal aid... the list is endless

[truth_seeker]

Add:

—free school breakfasts and lunches

—reduced cost/free “college”

—reduced cost/free bus tickets

[mountn man]

I think you could also add tax write offs in there. $3700 per dependent.

Add to that the EITC of $5036 for 2 kids and $5666 for 3.

$5k of free, tax free money.

My cousin and her husband make about $25k a year. Standard deductions for the 2 of them is $11,600. Personal exemptions for them and 2 kids are $3700 each or $14,800.

That means they pay no federal income tax.

They then get the EITC for 2 kids of $5036.

Their kids go to school. Public schools spend on average over $10k PER student PER year. That might be considered welfare.

How about school breakfast and lunch programs for the poor?

Free ER care. They can't refuse treatment and you can't squeeze blood out of a turnip.

[DJlaysitup]

Can anyone total up, line-by-line, the “assistance” that a typical dependent of the state with two children and a non-working baby daddy are “entitled” to? Welfare Medicade Section 8 housing WIC Food stamps Chilren care Energy assistance How much and what else?

Tack onto that all the private free stuff that they can get - some have it down to a science.

I remember last year they showed the school supply drive on our local TV news. Basically everybody who wanted to donate brought new school supplies (including backpacks and clothing) to the park in the morning where volunteers organized everything for the afternoon giveaway to the "needy". When they showed the afternoon giveaway portion it was like a land rush...a bunch of fat _ssed welfare mommas and their broods. They weren't going through the items and carefully picking out what they needed from a school list - they were toting away everything they could carry (one "lady" was balancing a stack of ten or so back packs still in the plastic). It was a fiasco.

[ladyjane]

In at least one state they get a free car, free AAA, free service and repairs, free insurance and free gasoline. After a year or two if they haven’t found a job they get to keep the car.