[metmom]

Sorry if I left the impression that I supported sterilization. That doesn’t allow for someone to change.

That said, I support drug testing for welfare recipients and much more accountability. This business of handing them free money and giving them free rein.

I lived in a welfare town for 18 LONG years and saw all the abuses of it. They are handed everything, scam the system, and whine about how bad they have it. It sickens me. I HATE welfare and the whole program should be defunded.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I agree with you: long-term welfare is a soul-sickening system. It is neither charity nor justice to lure a needy brother or sister into a degrading state of lifelong dependency.

People use EBT cards for cigarettes, alcohol, lottery tickets, nail salons, tattoes, drugs and pornography. When my hard-working, highly thrifty DIL was doing checkout at a grocery, it made her angry every day to see people paying for carts full of junk food AND expensive cuts of meat and seafood, while she -- working every day and conscientiously paying off student loans --- was living on bagged beans and the cheaper cuts of macaroni.

Drug tests, payment ceilings, work requirements, and lifetime limits on benefits would be a good place to start.

And the illegals --- oh man...