>>>Wouldn't they look for a job without uncle Sam telling them to? It's the "I just don't want to" crowd that I'm concerned about.
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>>I'd love to see some evidence that what you call the "I just don't want to" crowd is of any significant size. Got any citations for that? (Real evidence, not opinion pieces.)
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>http://www.spamlaws.com/welfare-fraud.html

That's a few anecdotal pieces, not evidence of widespread fraud.

>http://da.co.la.ca.us/wf/conv.htm

Again, individual cases, not sense of how _common_ fraud is.

>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6248

This is just a diatribe against welfare with no examination of the frequency of fraud.

>http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=949179

And this doesn't address the question at hand, at all.

What I'm asking you and others for is some real evidence, not anecdotes, that the number of people who are abusing the welfare system is a significant percentage of the number of people receiving assistance. Of course, there are some cheats (as there are in pretty much any system), but the question is whether they are a large enough subset as to render the whole program invalid.

Tamar