This is from The New York Times of all things:

This is painful for a liberal to admit, but conservatives have a point when they suggest that America’s safety net can sometimes entangle people in a soul-crushing dependency.

And why ever would he admit something like that? Here’s why:

THIS is what poverty sometimes looks like in America: parents here in Appalachian hill country pulling their children out of literacy classes. Moms and dads fear that if kids learn to read, they are less likely to qualify for a monthly check for having an intellectual disability.

Many people in hillside mobile homes here are poor and desperate, and a $698 monthly check per child from the Supplemental Security Income program goes a long way — and those checks continue until the child turns 18.

He says “poor and desperate”. I say “lazy and deceitful”. But what’s the diff? Each kid is worth $8400 a year and then out they go to shift for themselves by getting married, starting up their own little welfare farms and voting for the Democrats at every election. He’s looking for a solution but it would just never occur to him that reducing welfare payments might be an important part of a useful strategy.