My dad had polio when I was three and I grew up on his disability and I wish all those folks bitching about how 'cushy' it is would just try it. Just try living a couple of months on $1,000 a month and find out how sweet it is. There is no such thing as an unbreakable cycle of dependence. This is the myth right wingers use to cut aid to the poor while getting their rich buddies more tax breaks. The U.S. treats it's poor, both on aid and working, worse than any other developed country. We are, if we were to be honest, run by the corporations for their benefit. Politicians are all on their payroll.

I think the danger is one of creating an unbreakale cycle of dependance. Any government powerful enough to give you everything is powerful enough to take it away. The bad behavior comes from politicians using this to get elected, and not really addressing the causes. Whatever happened to all those shovel ready jobs that were promised.