Coping With Welfare Equals Losing 13 IQ Points

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10. The Biggest Problem Is No One Can See It

And politicians routinely exploit this fact by telling any lie they want about "welfare". They don't WANT anything to change or they won't have their pathetic welfare scapegoat to kick around anymore.

There's an awesome article in the NY Times about the rise of "Poverty Capitalism", and how it extracts bureaucratic funding from the people who can least afford it, financially or psychologically:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/27/opinion/thomas-edsall-the-expanding-world-of-poverty-capitalism.html?_r=0

This article cited an even more important WaPo article about how everything costs more (and stresses you out more) when you're poor:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/17/AR2009051702053.html

Meanwhile the real "Welfare Queens" living high off the hog at the taxpayer expense (and sheltering the money in off-shore tax havens) are outed in this article:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-real-housewives-of-wall-street-look-whos-cashing-in-on-the-bailout-20110411

Combine with GOP rhetoric that seeks to identify welfare with blackness (even though the majority are white/hispanic/other), I have some suspicion that certain Powers That Be are actually trying to exacerbate this instinct:
http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2014/06/scarcity-might-make-people-more-racist.html

While the little people try to justify their existence and get resources from the ridiculous Rube Goldberg Machine that is being passed off as a welfare "system", certain people are partying on their yacht off St. Tropez.