Extra Post Welfare Video

http://www.upworthy.com/if-you-think-only-poor-people-need-welfare-wait-till-you-see-what-really-rich-folks-do-with-it?c=reccon1

This video is kind of long, but if you get the chance it is definitely worth watching. It does a really good job of explaining what we were taking about last class period. In the video they talk extensively about all the programs that the wealthy use to bolster themselves and that are considered entitlements, while at the same time vilifying those that use welfare services that are available to their class. The discrepancy between entitlements and welfare also comes in the stigma attached that comes with using welfare, whereas there is no stigma attached to taking advantage of tax breaks. I think what is especially important is how this video highlights that the companies whose employees are likely to be on welfare like Walmart and McDonalds, receive huge tax breaks and subsidies, and by paying their employees such low wages with so few benefits there employees are forced to use government welfare to survive.  She also discusses how the US spends much more every year on giving tax breaks to homeowners then it does on giving public housing to the poor. I think that the historical context of welfare that the video outlines helped me understand where people first started thinking that the poor abuse welfare.