Doesn't the welfare to work discussion puncture the welfare queen myth?

[BayouBengal07]

This week we've heard an awful lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth from the right side of the aisle about the Obama administration "gutting" the welfare-to-work requirements put in place in 1996's reforms.

But doesn't complaining about removing those requirements, indeed acknowledging their very existence, disprove the myth of the "welfare queen"? How can the president plunge us back into an era of work-free welfare if there are already legions of welfare recipients living cradle to grave without working? Aren't they admitting it doesn't work that way?

[unblock]

1. you're selling logic to people who think obama is a nazi socialist muslim with an crazy preacher?

[JHB]

2. +1

[Enrique]

3. you are right, but...

logic has never been part of the welfare issue.

Let Craig T. Nelson explain:

[Bluerthanblue]

4. the people who bitch about welfare queens

don't care about facts, and when questioned rarely if ever are able to produce an actual case of 'cradle to grave' recipients.

You make a very good point with your question, but the people who need to hear it, won't acknowledge it because it doesn't fit their prejudice.