I'm with Thorn on this. I lived a better part of my life in and out of poverty. I knew my mother starved to keep me fed as best she could while she was working two jobs. Meanwhile my sister was running every scam in every government cheese play book so she didn't have to work so she could go get high with her friends, while my mom and i watcher her kid. which eventually turned into two kids.

The projects... I lived there. Children i plaid with are dead from drugs, gang violence, or in prison. Some of them never made it to their teens. Some of them left and are doing great things. There is a line, there is a difference. Those who left came from the parents who worked hard. Those children understood that there are people who have no understanding of work is.

There is a culture in this country that feels that is okay to take hand outs. That it's okay to do nothing. That it's okay to work the system and it's larger than this "small percent". I've seen it, I've lived it, I'm related to it. They don't see it is a helping hand, as a temporary situation. They see it as what they deserve. That's their attitude. That it's deserved.

Are there people out there who work HARD even though they are on assistance? yes. Are they still contributing? yes. but this idea that it's only a rogue person who is abusive is silly. It's not an issue of how they feel it's an issue of how they're taught. I'm not on any assistance. My sister still is and her children are. When you are raised seeing your parents do something without remorse you will do it too without remorse.

I don't say this from any height. I say this as a girl that makes 9.00 an hour who takes public transit to work. whose bank account was over drawn from her birth control. I've been to a well fare office in the past 6 months and I STILL donate money. I STILL volunteer. When there are generations of people who have been on well fare and who get their nails done... yeah I think that's a real issue.