Why the Welfare System is broken......

Over 45,000,000 Americans are on food stamps.    http://cnsnews.com/news/article/447-million-americans-now-food-stamps-more-any-time-under-bush

Food stamps cover luxury items like lobster and filet Mignon. When I was poor, I ate Mac & Cheese and worried about paying my bills on time. For those on food stamps, eating cheaply isn’t a concern. 

An average family of five gets $700+ for food alone, not including the 180 free meals also offered at public school for the school-aged kids.    http://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/applicant_recipients/ben.htm

This is just food stamps alone. This isn’t about housing welfare, free college payments, infant assistance, free public schooling, or actual cash from the government. This is the food program alone. For many people, it makes far more sense to eat salmon on food stamps than to accept a part time job and risk losing the “free” money. 

People on welfare eat better than many people in the middle class who don’t qualify. That is wrong. And no, this isn’t just an occasional bit of fraud. This is what the system is supposed to do. There's a story where a lady was told that food stamps didn’t cover the dog food she picked, so she went back and got t-bones.

Why should the middle class, that are working to pay the taxes to give money to the "poor", not be able to afford electricity to pay for A/C, a cell phone, Cable TV, and have to eat Mac & Cheese, and yet there are "poor" people that can have all those things and get all kinds of welfare assistance.

That should upset you.

The democrat answer....give more people more money.  But eventually the government will run out of money to give to people.

If you support welfare existing to stop starvation from being possible, then that’s one thing. I get it. I totally agree.  Babies dying of malnutrition isn’t exactly what the goal is. But there’s no way around the fact that welfare should be reformed, cut, and that we should focus on giving tax cuts to the middle class to make it easier to leave poverty in the first place.

The reason democrats won't do anything about welfare lies in the statement President Johnson gave back in 1964, not the group of people he was talking about, but the underlying intentions for the "Great Society" programs.  Give people stuff and they will vote for you...........