"Jonathan Ganz" wrote
The welfare mentality of which you speak is actually one of wanting
work, but .....

Bwahahahaha!

Ronnie Reagan thot the same thing when he was elected governor of Ca on a
promise to reduce welfare rolls. He promptly ended the Bracero Program that
imported 1000s of Mexicans to labor in Ca, thus keeping those jobs for
Americans. But American welfare recipients thot themselves too good to do
"stoop labor"! The only willing workers were *college students*! With
farmers loosing crop after crop, Reagan decreed that any able bodied person
who refused work would be stripped of welfare benefits. But the welfare
freaks sued, had a bunch shrinks testify that laziness was a debilitating
mental disease that precluded a lazy person from working. The (lazy?) judge
ruled that lazy people should get disability payments vs welfare, thus
allowing Ronnie to keep his promise (c: