[Travis McGee]

[sickoflibs]

RE :”Is welfare corrupt? Of course it is, and in a damning report last week, the Massachusetts state auditor, Suzanne Bump, rounded up some of the scams:
Welfare payments issued to recipients long after they were listed as dead. Multiple recipients using one Social Security number – and multiple Social Security numbers being used by one person. Electronic benefit cards from Massachusetts being used in places like Hawaii, Las Vegas, and the Virgin Islands. Tens of thousands of blank EBT cards missing from state welfare offices. Repeated requests for “lost” benefit cards to be replaced.
In a report that covered only a two-year period, Bump’s investigators identified at least $18 million in illegal or suspicious welfare payments. “It pains all of us,” Bump told reporters, “to think that the program's integrity is not being maintained.”

What did you say Liz, the Obama admin gives them a taxpayer ID, food stamp card , a voter registration form and coupons for Taco Bell when they make it across the border?

Dont forget the poor mans guide to Obama-care

[johniegrad]

FDR feared the effect of long-term dependence on government.

If he did, he had a funny way of showing it.

[The Working Man]

Charity in time of need is a welcome and good thing, but when ‘charity’ becomes the norm it is no longer a good thing because the end result of too much Charity is always the destruction of ‘purpose’ and in the end the destruction of ‘purpose’ leads to the destruction of society.

Which in hindsight appears to have been the goal all along of the people who implemented ‘Welfare’ aka ‘Government Charity’. I hope that they are pleased with their efforts. I most certainly am not pleased though.

[Sherman Logan]

Is welfare corrupt? Of course it is

You bet. Any operation with tens of millions of people will be corrupt to some extent.

Which means the question is completely meaningless unless the answer is quantified. How corrupt is the system? And compared to what?

[lurk]

Is welfare corrupt?

Is Joe Biden simple?

My mother was a social worker. She brought home stories.

Funny how we scream about Obamacare and ignore the great cancer that is welfare, food stamps, disability, afdc.

[JimRed]

If they don’t remain poor, or at least dependent upon government for their sustenance they will be lost to the left as a potential voting block. Therefore they must remain poor or dependent.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

The very idea that an able bodied person is able to sit on his or her ass and collect a check to do nothing, even if there are jobs available, is corrupt.

[Truth2012]

Here is an organization that gets it: http://www.urbancure.org/

[PuzzledInTX]

It is a mark of how far we have declined that a political figure who dared to say such a thing today would be denounced as heartless, a hater of the poor, even a racist – as Newt Gingrich found out when he tried to make an issue of soaring food stamp rates during the presidential campaign. When Massachusetts lawmakers last year tried to prevent EBT cards from being used to pay for tattoos, guns, or jewelry, Governor Deval Patrick vetoed the measure, saying he would not be a part of "humiliating poor people" or making them "beg for their benefits."

Cowards! All of us who cannot stand against immediate gratification are cowards. Unfortunately, the consequences seem too long in manifesting to educate against this evil. Where are the US heroes? To me, a hero is someone who maintains their values in the face of hostile bullying. It is like parents allowing their children the authority to make decisions for the family. Where is the backbone to do what is right?

[Elsie]

Is This Any Way to Help the Poor?

Who cares; as long as they STILL vote us Libs into office?