year from the WIC program. Walmart weeps. Funds from welfare, section 8, food stamps, medicaid are not collecting interest in some recipient's bank account. These funds go directly to the landlords, supermarkets, stores, small businesses, doctors use it to boost their practice, pharmacies make billions, unscrupulous check cashing and rent-to-own industry. If you removed all of this funding from the budget this is what would happen. They would be fewer jobs, people with jobs pay taxes. For every person on welfare, 8 jobs are created, one dollar spent on a program generates $12 in the economy. This is the business of poverty. Everything cost the more money. It seems that Reagan understood, you can not give massive tax breaks to the wealthy without supporting the underclass. There are people in American society who lack basic skills, are functionally illiterate and will never be mainstream working. Without a jobs or welfare, crime rates would explode. You would see anarchy in the streets. You would see a further erosion of the middle class. There is no such thing as 100% employment! Revamp welfare. It was meant for women and children. Why are grown men living in federally subsidized housing? Women and children only Violators will be evicted. This is the reason the ghettos are a war zone. DRUG testing for all recipients should be mandatory, don't want a drug test.. Get a job. You are allowed one child, have more than one child, and the benefits stay the same. You do not