Too busy workin' my life away to give you those stats... Maybe Dickey who apparently has more time on his hands can provide them but I'll guarentee you that the working adult poor outnumbers the very few (by comparision) welfare moms who are just awiting their own "cut-off" dates when they gotta get on the bus at 5 in the morning and trek across town to make minimum wage...

And, AWG, there are way too many sterotypes of what it's lie to be on welfare in the US... But these sterotypes have been beaten into folks heads by rich folks who have passed down their hatred for the FDR's New Deal from generation to generation... George Bush is a prime example... In college he argues with his teachers about this... Yeah, he put forth the sterotype welfare recipent as ig he actaully knoew anything about the subjexct... Problem, is... he didn't and still doesn't have so much as a clue...

While he was arguin' that there were lazy folks on welfare I was workin' for a community action program in a housi9ng project, Hillside Court, in South Richmond and all the women there were on welfare... The dads were gone... Why??? Because the welfare system in the US demanded that dads ***had*** to be out of the house or the mother wouldn't get jack!!!

Talk about the hypocrisy of "family values"??? The right wing in the US wouldn't know "family val;ues" if bitten on the ass...

This is and was the real deal...

Janie will tell you...

People in the uS ain't lazy... They outwork every industrialized nation in the world and that is top to bottom... Out poor outwork most people in the world..

This ain't about laziness... It's about "the system" that is stacked to the hilt in favor of fat cats and rich pweople at the expense of the folks who build their homes, teach their children, nurse them when they are sick, drive the buses, take care of their eldery parents, fix their plumbing, clean their gutters, etc. etc....

So, yeah, I am very pissed off!!! I don't accept that this is all that my government can do for its people... Tihis, if it didn't involve so many folks living in absolute squaller, would be a joke...

Bobert