Welfare Misconceptions…

Ran across this link on YouTube and obviously it correlates to our ongoing discussion in class. Listen in to what Hannity says, specifically the part where he states “there are even people under the Obama tax plan that don’t work or pay taxes that will get money back”. Hannity makes it seem, as most conservatives do, that not only is it “easy” to receive the welfare check (we all know there are strings attached), but that these people are living high on the hog. Not paying taxes? Not working? Getting money from the government so they can live?? Preposterous! I feel like the people out of touch with the realities of welfare make themselves out to be these welfare geniuses (Like Hannity). If every other industrial nation in the world sees the value of welfare, why is the most powerful country in the world penny pinching and scrutinizing people who don’t have the means to subsist?