Also, try finding a single person who qualifies for all of those programs and actually gets the full amounts you listed. You will find 0.

Some of that $80K worth of stuff was BS just to inflate the numbers. The TEACH grant, for example, is available to anyone, regardless of income.

Whoaaaaaaaaaaaaaa really living it up. I waste more every month. Who can live like this? This is no life.

Thank you for exposing the growing entitlement society and the waste. KEEP IT UP.

This is right-wing crap. I'm switching to channel 27.

the questions that need to be asked is "why does the average working class employee's buying power decrease every year? yet the average member of an executive team's buying power increases every year". The root of the problem is that most companies today are offering substandard wages that fail to keep up with the cost of living. As a result, very few are able to maintain an acceptable quality of life. The real kicker is that instead of taking the attitude of "I'm going to negotiate with my employer for a better salary", they instead take the attitude of "that union employee across the river doesn't deserve 60k a year". If I were a greedy exec, that is exactly the attitude I would want my employees to have, that way I would be able to keep a bigger share of the profits every year and never have to deal with any backlash.

the questions that need to be asked is "why does the average working class employee's buying power decrease every year? yet the average member of an executive team's buying power increases every year". The root of the problem is that most companies today are offering substandard wages that fail to keep up with the cost of living. As a result, very few are able to maintain an acceptable quality of life. The real kicker is that instead of taking the attitude of "I'm going to negotiate with my employer for a better salary", they instead take the attitude of "that union employee across the river doesn't deserve 60k a year". If I were a greedy exec, that is exactly the attitude I would want my employees to have, that way I would be able to keep a bigger share of the profits every year and never have to deal with any backlash.

executives buy up shares in the media so they can publish these kinds of stories. Its an age old trick to pit poor people against other poor people, which keeps everyone's attention off of the real problem. The real problem is corporate greed, which explains why so many people need these benefits in the first place. I've never met a conservative who doesn't gladly enjoy the benefits that some liberal fought for. If you are not excessively wealthy, and are conservative, you are a walking double standard who has been duped into consistently shooting yourself in the foot. Its really unfortunate that we can't fix stupid

To hersheydad: You are prejudiced, egotistical and just plain down right arrogant as well as a lack of facts. Yes maybe some of the elderly people are in nursing homes because the family don't want them and they could be taken care of in the home of their children. A few personal experiences: My sister took leave of absence and stayed in my mother's home to care for her through terminal illness. My late, ex-wife was with my son who also had medical problems until it go to the point that he and my daughter-in-law could no longer handle her. At that point they had to put her in a nursing home of which cost them money. Nursing homes are not free, in fact it can cost a person their hundred, hundred and fifty thousand dollar house because that is where these nursing homes get their money. Yes they may get state and or federal assistance, but they also get it from the individuals or families of their patients. My father-in-law is 89 years old and still lives in his own home for all practical purposes, by himself. Our door has been opened to him but he chooses to stay in his own home. He also cared for my mother-in-law, even though the doctors recommended a nursing home. So don't categorize old people as such. One day you may be old and need a nursing home because there will be no one capable to handle or take care of you. I am almost 74, living in my own place on a fixed income. I do not have any public assistance nor do I want any because no matter how bad things get, there is always some one else worse off than I am.

The welfare community is a disgrace. Not the people who take the benefits, but the community of government agencies whose only real job is to perpetuate the poor. Handing them stuff doesn't help them, it only keeps them slaves....slaves to the system. And the producers are asked to keep on paying. And deadbeat dad just moves on......... One final thought, these are Obama's people. Red, Black, Brown or White, they are voters in his site.....so let's give them more