Recent content by blackwell

And you're missing my point, which is that there are people who genuinely need welfare to survive. Should these people be left for dead because of the actions of some people who do decide to scam the system. An estimated 10.1% of welfare goes to improper welfare payments, which includes fraud...

The idea behind the lice and bedbug statement is that some people can't afford the extermination, and they keep coming back if you can't afford proper extermination. Yes, a lot of these kids do have parents who need to get their lives straight, I'll give you that.

What I'm suggesting is that there are people on welfare who definitely shouldn't be, and they're taking money from the people who really need it.

Poverty does exist in the US, but I agree, the standards for what counts as poverty needs to be changed. My kid has friends who pretty much only eat at school, who have bedbugs and lice every other week. That's poverty, not the TVs and Playstations and a house in good repair.

Speaking as a former prostitute myself (from ages 12-16, I'm 36 now) honestly I have very little idea as to why people think it shouldn't be legal. While I was in sex work, I was raped several times, but if it were government regulated that would very likely be better. I didn't report any of...