Cottage Industries

I have no facts to substantiate this, only my intuitive gut feel, but I think there is an entire cottage industry that has grown up in the community of the unemployed.

There are some 93 million unemployed people.  That number has been fairly constant the past six years.  The question that must be asked is, "How is it these people are able to survive, not for a few months, but for several years?"  Granted many have rightfully received unemployment payments from the government and  in most instances extended unemployment payments.  But, after that, what?  And, what about those people perpetually in some way on several welfare programs?  Though many of these folks need a leg up,  I'm inclined to believe  many have learned how to scam and "work" the system to their advantage.  Thus, they have developed cottage industries whereby their "full-time employment" is actually learning how to fraud the various welfare benefits while not being gainfully employed.  I suspect many of them live well beyond the means of many hard working employed folks.  It is a well know fact that almost all government programs are fraught with fraud, thus the growth of cottage industries to get their "fair" piece of the pie.

Its a serious problem for a democracy when the majority of the people vote not what is best for the country, but what's best for them.