The editors assert in “Lottery winner, welfare more”:
“Don’t think our merit-based economic system is slowly being replaced with an ‘entitlement society,’ in which government-benefit programs – food stamps, welfare, unemployment insurance –create a dependent class of Americans?”…
“In suburban Detroit, a 24-year-old woman who won a million dollar state lottery jackpot last fall continued to collect and use $200 a month in food stamps, courtesy of Michigan taxpayers.”
WATCHDOG: We are to believe that the despicable action of one miscreant out of over forty million Americans who need and receive food stamps is an indication of a “dependent class”? If so, would the same preposterous leap of logic apply to a claim that one bribed journalist is an indication of a corrupt press?
Visit “Ensuring food stamp integrity” for information concerning ongoing efforts of the government to minimize welfare abuse.
