the middle class pays about 60% of all they earn to help the poor. All there expenses are payed by the middle class and on top of that they get free everything while the rest of us get gouged. Most non working jobless people get free healthcare because they are poor while those that have jobs are considered not poor enough and some people get more in free welfare and services for being poor then if they worked. They get almost free housing, worth about $800-1200 a month were i live, plus totally free medical for their entire family, being supported by our tax dollars again which equals about $1200-2000 a month, plus free dental another $500 a month, plus free childcare which is about $600-900 a month per child, which adds up if there is more children, plus free food $500 a month, plus free education for their children at colleges, about $20,000 a year per college age student. The grand total here is about $55,500-60,000 for a 2 parent 2 child family. I have work at a daycare center and I see low income parents come in with 5 children and they also had 2 children who were college aged, and just for their daycare alone and college that our tax payers are paying for they were receiving $76000 a year in services, were the average middle class person gets no free services and earns an average of 30-45k a year, those that are not contributing are getting about double then what the hard working members of society get. Most of the parents we get at the childcare center that get free childcare work about 4 hours a day but the state pays for full time childcare, so once they get off of work they go out and have fun and guess who is paying for all that extra money that is being spent because the state is paying for the daycare to watch children while their parents are out having fun at the tax payers expense. I overheard a welfare mom talking to another welfare mom about how they were both getting off of work early and how they should go out together after work and get acrylic nails. Acrylic nails are expensive and it isnt fair that low income people that work only 4 hours a day can afford them when I work full time and am a taxpayer cant afford them. It isnt fair that low income people get luxury items that the middle class cant afford. If the middle class cant afford luxury items then the lower income people shouldnt either. Most of the lower income children at the center got $50 max on their christmas gifts this year, where most of the lower income gifts got about $150 of gifts just from their parents, plus all the charities that give their children gifts. My aunt is a foster mom and at christmas time, with the fost care present drive, she was offered a mountain of expensive gifts for each of her 5 foster children. There was so much that she felt sickened because her own child was only getting one $100 gift and each one of those foster children was offered $5000 in gifts, from computers and ipods and big screen tv's to laptops. She felt that it was unfair to give each one of those children $5000 in gifts when other children were getting so much less so she only took enough to give each one of them, all boys, one remote control car per child, one cd player per child, and one movie per child. Still, those remote control cars were not the cheap ones, they were the high end $500 ones. Still those children probably got $500 each in gifts from charities. I am not against giving to those in need. I just think that it is not far to basically give poor people an incentive for being poor. Generation after generation of families are living off of our welfare system and because of all the incentives they have no reason to get ahead, because they can still have all the expensive toys and desires for their children without working for it and so their is no incentive for them to become contributing members of society because they get more out of living on the system then if they didnt. all the incentives they give means that they are actually living a better lifestyle and more comfortably then those that get up everyday and work the 9-5 and try to get ahead and are the backbone of our society