I grew up in Pittsburgh. Basically in the neighborhood of Esplen, which is next to McKees Rocks. I saw tons of people (or families, though they were mostly of the broken variety) that were basically living their whole lives on welfare. They were not proud of it like in the story, but they sure were in no hurry to get a job. They knew that any job they got would not pay that much more than what they got from welfare. The thing that used to upset me the most about it, was that they ate better than my family. My Mom would coupon clip, sale shop, and always buy generic. They would eat all major brands, and basically whatever they wanted. When I worked at the grocery store, if you payed with food stamps, then more than half of your purchase was junk food. Which does not make it better actually, just a bigger waste of money. The other scam would occur with the WIC program. Mothers would always try to bring the formula back and exchange it for other products (or more than likely try to get a refund). Boy did they get pissed when they realized that our receipts carried a code that let us know that it was a WIC purchase. I have seen far more abuse of the welfare system, than people that really needed it.
