Welfare recipients are faking depression (reg. req. – try BugMeNot) and physical injuries to avoid meeting work requirements. You don’t say? I have no doubt that eating from the government trough and gaming the system can lead to a self-perpetuating cycle of depression and sense of worthlessness. I can only hope that those who were raised to know better also feel a generous amount of shame.
Update: Writes Star Parker:
More than $7 trillion has been spent on poverty programs since Lyndon Johnson declared his “war on poverty” 40 years ago, with effectively zero impact on overall black poverty. Yet 40 years of failure doesn’t seem to be enough to suggest to liberals, black and white, that their approach to poverty might be wrong.
