Orlando Enrique Fiol wrote:
>
> Your ongoing assumption is that people on welfare consider their lives
> care free and ideal. Most people on welfare turn to it as a last ditch
> supplemental economic option, one of many including traditional jobs and
> participation in informal or illegal economies. It has little to do with
> self esteem and more to do with life costing more than low wage salaries
> can purchase.




*Some* people turn to welfare as a last resort. Meanwhile, there are
lots of people out there who have no problem getting pregnant and unable
to support the children and living on welfare. Then they demand day care
and special education and training programs to get themselves back into
the work force.