perhaps someone shoudl come tot he defense of welfare queens. we use that term like it’s a bad thing. I remember reading somewhere that it’s actually better for the economy for some people to receive welfare than to glut up the employment market, that welfare is actually efficient. moreover, people on welfare have more time to commit to their families, since they don’t have to do the harried “drop teh kdis off at day care to go to a meaningless job” dance. perhaps if more people went on welfare we wouldnt be in the mess we’re in today. “productivity”, “consumption”, “profit”, all of these things may be way overrated. I’d be willing to admit im a welfare king because my student loans were somewhat subsidized, but I will continue to refuse to admit to being a welfare queen. it also seems a bit sexist to limit the discussion to welfare queens, and welfare king sounds a little weird, because we expect the welfarist to milk the system to feed the kids. The welfare king on the other hand, is a term I may have just coined. If anyone wants to print up t-shirts that say ‘WELFARE KING”, I will promise contractually here to buy one from the first seller, this contract binding on my heirs and assings, in perpetuity, non-assignable, backstaopped byt he taxpayers in the event of my bankruptcy or default…so just gimme the damn thing for free and lets call it even…