"Despite prevailing stereotype, Whites, not Blacks, collect greatest share of public aid dollars

(This blog contains my thoughts and some basic verifiable information is readily available on various sites). "Despite prevailing stereotype, Whites, not Blacks, collect greatest share of public aid dollars SAY the word "welfare" and immediately the image of the lazy Black welfare queen who breeds for profit surfaces in the minds of those who have come to believe the hideous stereotype. It is a myth that persists despite government figures and authoritative studies showing that Whites overwhelmingly reap the lion's share of the dole.The image of the Black "welfare cheat," public aid advocates say, is based on misconceptions about poor minorities. The notion, they say, comes from society's resentment of seemingly able bodied people getting paid for doing nothing. "For some people, there is a need to believe that there are professional welfare recipients who are deliberately trying to get not only what they need to survive, but more," says Anne D. Hill, director of programs for the National Urban League. "People say to themselves: 'I work. How come this person who appears to be healthy isn't working?' We tend to equate our condition with others without fully knowing their circumstances." Hill and other welfare supporters argue that numbers, and not erroneous stereotypes, tell the real story about public assistance clients: Some 61 percent of welfare recipients are White, while 33 percent are Black, according to 1990 Census Bureau statistics, the latest figures available. The federal government defines welfare as all entitlement programs funded through taxes. These programs, listed as "direct benefit payments for individuals" by the Office of Management and Budget, make up $730 billion or 43 percent of the $1.47 trillion the government will spend this fiscal year. Social Security is the nation's largest welfare program, although many Whites prefer to call it a retirement plan. The government writes retirement and disability benefit checks to 35.4 million recipients of whom 88.7 percent are White and 9.6 percent are Black. The reason behind this shocking disparity is perhaps the most lamentable of all: The life expectancy rate for Blacks is six years shorter than that of Whites, meaning Black workers spend years paying into a retirement system only to have White retirees reap the benefits for a longer time. Welfare critics rarely search the Social Security rolls for "welfare cheats," but train their sights on people getting Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), Medicaid and food stamps, the relief programs with the most Black clients. Yet government figures show that Whites not Blacks make up the bulk of clients on these public aid programs; a fact that dispels the notion that Blacks are scheming for a free lunch courtesy of the American taxpayer. Among the poorest of the poor--single mothers, living below the poverty line with minor children to support 39.7 percent of AFDC clients are Black single mothers and 38.1 percent are White women with children. Food stamp recipients are 37.2 percent Black and 46.2 percent White. Medicaid benefits are paid to 27.5 percent Black recipients compared to 48.5 percent White clients." Welfare was not created for the so called black population.For a very long while blacks or other minorities weren't even allowed to receive any benefits of any welfare system it was designed for "whites." Blacks and other minorities were not allowed to receive assistants instill the 1960's and even then they were not allowed to apply for additional help unlike whites which welfare in an of itself was debatable designed for. Should I be judgmental about the white trailer park lady with bare feet and a baby on her hip with nothing, but a pamper on? She is holding up the checkout line for a bagger to see if something is "food stamp" approved? I use this true example to express thoughts behind a habitual stereotype. Further more you make a moronic comment about "blame your slave trader!" Where did your people come from? You would agree would you not that your; white' people came over on ships right? You're a poster child for our failed public funded education system. Further more you make a moronic comment about "blame your slave trader!" Where did your people come from? You would agree would you not that your white' people came over on ships did they not? You're a poster child for our failed public funded education system. You've been left behind. (It's ignorant people as yourself that 'waste' our tax dollars, because you are willingly moronic. Go back to school learn to read and write then learn a bit of real history before you People like you are quick to say, "go back to Africa." You go back to "Europe" you ignorant knuckle. The so-called black man has helped build and sustain this country, through blood, sweat and tears. Africans came here in the same way that your people did, only they came over with shackles, yet honorable, shackled yet hard working, shackled while raising helping to raise your children, shackled yet raped; Africans were whipped while shackled. While the black man was working where was the white man blockhead? Forget it. You probably would spout an ignorant comment. "Blacks" have contributed a great deal in establishing the industrialization of this Country. Yet you out of severe ignorance - and foolish stereo types blah something so pathetic. "Come on, my fellow white folks, we have something to confess. "The numbers go like this: 61% of the population receiving welfare, listed as "means-tested cash assistance" by the Census Bureau, is identified as white, while only 33% is identified as black. (One of your hard working people explains to you the reality of everything that you know not."