Urban legend you say? Clemenza, you must still be reading the New York Times.
Check this out:
"Gov. Deval Patrick’s free wheels for welfare recipients program is revving up despite the stalled economy, as the keys to donated cars loaded with state-funded insurance, repairs and even AAA membership are handed out to get them to work. But the program – fueled by a funding boost despite the state’s fiscal crash – allows those who end up back on welfare to keep the cars anyway.
The state pays for the car’s insurance, inspection, excise tax, title, registration, repairs and a AAA membership for one year at a total cost of roughly $6,000 per car.
http://www.ihatethemedia.com/massachusetts-free-cars-for-poor
They get free and subsidized housing, free cell phones and free minutes including foreign calls. You don't have to be a citizen to get on this gravy train. Ask Aunt Zetuni and Uncle Obama (the other Obama relative here illegally that the liberal media won't talk about.)
The liberal press would like us to believe that these giveaways are all urban legend but they are not. Unwed pregnant moms are still hitting the jackpot each time they have another child.
AFDC was abolished, which is one of the reasons why so many poor blacks have abortions these days relative to 20-30 years ago (cant afford the babies anymore). The largest program in terms of federal transfers to the indigent is social security.