Maybe we're not meanies.

Click here: More child support is paid, census says - Nation/Politics - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper

Cheryl Wetzstein's piece in the WashTimes deals with additional child support. It can be a two-edged sword, particularly among poor people. It can drive poor fathers to the poorhouse, prevent re-marriage, alienate children etc.

But while complaints mount (mostly from Democrats, when they are out of power) the Federal Government, and states and cities, have been more and more helpful to poor Americans.

The minimum Social Security payments have gone up. The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) give huge and growing tax benefits to people who earn up to lower middle class levels. Tens of millions of poorer Americans now pay no Federal taxes at all. Tens of millions of poor Americans receive more welfare monies, more education, more job training etc.
There is much more.

Welfare, broadly seen, has gone way up for those in need --- and cut for for tax cheats.

That's the way it should be.

That's what Neo-Cons like me believe.

Ben