Quote Originally Posted by steelish View Post
Oh, it was obvious, but you're analogy was not. Coal miners typically make almost $22.00 per hour, which is middle class wages.

Lower class are those who make minimum wage, or just barely over it. (Adults who are workers at McDonalds, or baggers at the grocery store, etc.) But no one thinks they don't work hard. The ones who don't work hard are the people who are capable of working yet have been on welfare for years. Those are the ones we complain about.
Yet welfare is a program that is minimally abused, over 95% of welfare recipients are on the program for only a short period of time, only 5% are the chronic abusers you "complain" about. 95% of the people who use it need support while they look for a new job. I don't think the coal miner is lazy, and I don't begrudge him a few months on welfare after they close the coal mine.

If you want to scrap welfare how about we get rid of every program that has less than 95% efficiency first. Starting with all military technology spending, which just about never comes in on budget.