SoMerry:

If you ever looked at the statistics re: welfare, you would have discovered that most of it is paid out to rural, White, working poor for a short period of time until they get back on their feet again. The Welfare Queen myth was discredited years ago.

Maybe if men stood up and actually paid support for the children they fathered, we wouldn't need aid to dependent children.

As for socialized medicine, Medicare is the most cost-effective and efficient methodology in the country. So bring it on!

Well then, I guess it was very altruistic for the black political community to show such concern for rural poor white people. But there _were_ a great many people who chose to make welfare a generation-after-generation way of life -- that was the problem.

Men are not obligated to pay child support to the children of whores and prostitutes. That's why women are supposed to demand marriage before sex.

As for Mediaire, I saw a damning 60 Minutes episode about uncontrolled massive fraud in the system. So maybe the British approach makes more sense.