Your comments are right on the money and as true as it is...it is equally sad and depressing. I have heard of so many people who get subsidized for some so called disability who live very normal lifes, working jobs under the table, dealing on ebay or selling on the internet. All the while they get a big assist from the "working poor". There are no shortages of scammers in Amherst (all of Amherst).
If things keep going the way they are in this country the working class will have much less than the "victimized". When I was young (eons ago) we had very little. When we wanted things that other kids had we didn't get them but we did get a lecture about doinng well in shcool so that we could get a good job and earn enough to have the finer things in life. (one of which was a TV. We had to go to a neighbors to watch I Love Lucy since we were the last in the Town to get a TV. We learned to make plans, set goals and keep going until we were satisfied that we had done our best. Guess we weren't so poor after all.