All my life I have known people on welfare who seem to be much more affluent than the working class people around them. They sport the latest iPhones, jewelry on every part of their body that can be bedazzled, tattoos, fancy cars, & you name it, they have it. How could they afford it all? Double dipping on their benefits would explain a lot, but I thought there were safeguards in place to prevent that kind of fraud and abuse. Well, there appears to be no safeguards or maybe the system doesn’t care to use them. In gathering information over the years, the following seems to represent some methods of deception.

A female finds herself in need, she is pregnant, has a child and her husband has abandoned her. She applies for welfare using her married name. Undoubtedly, this person would qualify for assistance and should receive it. When the baby is born, her benefits increase because of the additional dependent. Fast forward a few months. The woman looks for a job but does not want to lose her benefits so when she applies for the job, she uses her maiden name. Now she has two incomes although the system does not know she is working and the employer does not know she is on welfare. This is one scenario, but there are more.
A woman has a baby out of wedlock and applies for welfare. When asked the name of the baby’s father, she gives the name but claims he has moved from the area. She is given benefits. Within a year or two she presents with another baby for which she receives benefits. She can keep repeating this pattern as long as she chooses. The system will increase her benefits with every new dependent. This woman, while irresponsible, is not as bad as the following one. In this case, The woman has several children with different “baby daddies” and applies for assistance under different names using the baby daddy’s names. This, of course, will cover her and the baby. But since she is using a different name each time she applies, she is receiving her benefits repeatedly and not just the coverage for the added dependent. Oh, and if she is so inclined, she could vote using all of those pseudonyms.
The welfare system was designed to be a temporary fix and not a way of life; just as being a politician was not meant to be a career. It is the career politicians who have caused dysfunction in our families. The expanding entitlements drive apart fathers from their children and reward the irresponsible choices of many women. The decline in our country’s morals coincides with the secular progressive movement to remove God from public venues. Although a majority of Americans are people of faith, the courts have ruled in favor of the few who are not. I believe those rulings are unconstitutional in that they find for the few while depriving the many. In denying our right to petition God openly, we disavow the morality of His teachings. How can we right the Ship of State which is headed for destruction? With God all things are possible. Matthew 19:26