How many? Really. How many?

And giving rich people and corporations huge tax breaks and billion-dollar tax credits so that they pay no taxes means buying their votes, too.

Where the hell have you been? Welfare was reformed under Clinton in the 1990's. Almost no one gets a check anymore unless they have dependent children to support. They must take training and look for work because social workers are all over their case. No one stays on for more than three years anymore. The idea that you can take away their rights to vote is completely unconstitutional. They are not criminals. One could use that logic to say that anyone who gets a tax credit should be denied the right to vote.

The lazy bums that we see are mostly homeless people, druggies, and gangsters and are not drawing welfare checks.

Subsidized public housing could stand some more reform, but its not breaking the budget--social security and medicare are doing that.

Who has placed an arbitrary cap on what one can earn? :huh:

This is exactly the reason that welfare reforn was enacted in the 1990's. You are absolutely right on this one, but 15 years behind the curve, amigo.

Are they? It an't much of a life, a bare subsistence income for three years. The incentive for unwed mothers to keep reproducing has been taken away. I don't think there are too many people crowing about the good life on welfare. They have seen the Huxtables on TV and they have ambition, too, just not a lot of hope an opportunity.

That was a direct response to your question. :huh:

You asked why. I told you why.

That includes Shanes VA benefits, your pappy's social security, your daughters scholarship, and mom's medicare. The Dept. of Health and Human Resources reports that about 2 million people receive temporary benefits.

7 figure annual incomes.

But you evaded the question. Why is government assistance to the poor "buying votes" while government assistance to the rich is not?

And I've never described the rich as evil. But my point, that you missed, is that all four of the welfare reforms that you say we need were implemented in the 1990's.

I have no idea what you are talking about. Explain to me how Obama is limiting how much a person can make. Be specific.

Hey there are homeless people out there with strange notions, but the government ordered them out of those buildings. They have no case.

Most people on welfare are not registered to vote. This notion has no legs.

What do you propose? Those people are not going to go away. If welfare disappeared they would all soon be supporting themselves with crime--selling drugs, burglarizing your house, carjacking your wife, prostitution . . . how else could they survive?

There have always been and always will be poor unemployed and unemployable people. The thing to do is to get them educated, trained, and back into the work force by offering them help in return for getting with the program. All we can do is try to minimize the poor.

What do you want. I answered your damn question. You want to write my response, too?