http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workhouse
Patrick Colquhoun
Poverty ... is a most necessary and indispensable ingredient in society, without which nations and communities could not exist in a state of civilisation. It is the lot of man it is the source of wealth, since without poverty there would be no labour, and without labour there could be no riches, no refinement, no comfort, and no benefit to those who may be possessed of wealth
The United States pays its poor to stay on the sidelines. -tom
That’s why the well paid parasites refuse to stop illegal immigration.