The New Welfare Queens.

       What's the face of a welfare queen look like these days? Well according to the National Memo today, it looks a lot like Walmart and McDonalds. Now I know you're probably wondering how these extremely profitable and huge corporations are connected to welfare. Do they actually get direct government aid? Not really, but they do in a round about way.
       Here's what happens according to the article. Because most of the employees of corporations like Walmart and McDonalds and a bunch of others, are so poorly paid, they're mostly eligible for government aid and food stamps. In fact Walmart's average employee gets about $1000 and McDonalds has a help line "McResource" that explains to it's employees how to apply for both state and federal aid. How that helps the Walmarts and McDonalds of the country is that they don't have to pay their people very much, they let the government pick up the tab for supporting the employees. So the Welfare Queen doesn't always live in inner cities anymore. More like plush boardrooms.
       What the article doesn't talk about is all the welfare queens in Congress. Say what? There's a whole bunch of Congressmen and Senators who receive aid because they're "farmers". Folks like Michelle Bachmann and her husband. She's been a Congresswoman for quite a while and her husband is an extremely successful businessman. I don't know how they manage to get out and plow the south forty, but I do know they get a hefty farm aid check every year. And they're not alone.
       Then there've been several stories in the last couple of weeks in the news about defense contractors and both civilian and military officers making a killing on some shady deals. If you add all these "takers" up, it amounts to a whole lot more than the poor folks trying to put food on the table and keep the home fires lit. We need to worry less about folks buying junk food with food stamps and  begin to worry about all these mega companies and fat cat legislators feeding off the government teat. The surest way to get folks off the welfare rolls is to require companies to pay a living minimum wage. That and eliminate aid to the wealthy.