THE US WELFARE STATE AT WORK. Or, rather, not at work. Work is for chumps! “Lucy is 32 with three kids. She is on welfare just like her parents and admits her kids will do the same. She says taxpayers are the fools…she gets to lay up all day and smoke weed while you go to work.”

I transcribed a bit from the end of the recording:

That’s my whole point. If I was in a position where I had to work, I mean, that might be a different story. But not only do I not have to work, they’re always — when you’re in these programs, they’re always coming to you and offering you more programs, and a lot of times, shoot, they’ll even pay you to go to these programs, y’know, these, like, y’know, “Hey, we’ll give you some money, we’ll give you this, we’ll give you that.” Y’know. And, uh, so, they encourage you to stay on the programs, and then if you do try to get off of ’em, they penalize you anyway. Well, if you go out and make ten dollars, they gonna deduct twenty dollars for you making that ten. So, you really can’t get off of it. And then they see someone like me who wants to go to work. Well, then if I went to work, every dime that I would make will go to child care anyway, so why work?