Welfare. Quick what do you think of when you hear that word? Some fat Black lady, driving to the grocery store in her Cadillac, with 3 kids in tow? If it is, then you are sadly misinformed. People have this image of people on welfare, like babies sucking on the tits of the government. Sucking the government dry, slurping all the milk, and lazing in the sun. Ha Ha Ha . I have a friend who's on welfare, 2 kids, and each month she receives a check of $343. With that money, she's to pay her rent, buy clothing, and any transportation cost. Now, I live in Chicago, and there is no place, and I do mean no place, that rents an apartment for less than $300 a month. Where's the money for her Cadillac? Oh, she also receives $289 a month in food stamps, and let me tell you, the food cost are sky high here in Chicago. She can't rent an apartment. She can't buy a car. She can't put clothes on her back. When school starts, and she has to pay the $100 school fees, she cries, because they won't have decent shoes to wear to school.Yep, that little hole in the toe of Paul's shoe will have to grow bigger, and lord forbids if it snows early. When her son who has asthma, allergies, and one of his frequent earaches, needs his medicine, she has to struggle to pay the $20 dollar co-payment. She has to rent a room, one room, for her and her two kids to stay in. She's in school, trying to better herself, trying to get off the big government tit, and when she drops her youngest son off at daycare, she has to pay a $50 a week co-payment for her day care. Let's see, $343-$150 (rent)-$150 (child care)-$20 (medicine co payment)=$23. I guess that $23 pays the monthly payment on her Cadillac. She longs for a place of her own. Her kids have never had their own room, nor have they ever had their own bed. She can't get low income housing, because in a city where most of the residents are poor, there's a 10-15 year waiting list. I know by now you're probably wondering where's the Father of her kids. Well, he pays child support, $300 a month, and that $300 goes to the government, to cover the amount that she receives from them. So I ask you, when, and where does she pick up her Cadillac? The Cadillac that some people in this country says she should have.