I'm not denying there are people who do abuse the systems in place (one of my cousins does so; she's not a favorite of mine in part because of such an attitude toward people/government), but there's just no really good alternative at the moment that I can see. Maybe tweaks, but radical overhauls will, for a time at least, displace millions who otherwise might have made ends meet.

My initial response was to the lumping together of quite a few disparate groups into that statistic and throwing in that pablum about "responsibility." Considering how galling it is for those like myself to have to depend upon UI for a while to pay some bills, it does grate to have that tacked onto a message that, while I disagree with it out of general principle, is at least a valid point of view.