>>So please take that "eat cake" line and put it back in your easy-bake oven. <s>
I replied to your obvious approval for the concept of reducing access to welfare, not to the anecdote you subsequently revealed. I cannot reply to your assertion that you know how to cut costs without affecting needy people, unless you provide enough specifics to allow meaningful engagement.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1