And you are sooooooo right, that the huge majority of welfare people are disgusting parasites who, at the very least, take for granted the free benefits they receive.

That depends, Stahn, on what income range you are talking about being on welfare. All poor people on welfare receive nothing but peanuts, and many as little as $150 per month (yes, you read that right), and are hardly flourishing or "taking advantage" of the system. That doesn't even rate as the equivalent of poverty wages, and having more kids to get more compensation from the state does nothing to pull them out of poverty, because they have more mouths to feed in that case. I know this because I have lived all my life in the poverty-infested inner cities, and I have never met a single family with many kids on welfare who rose out of poverty as a result of multiple hand-outs due to multiple kids. The system fully takes advantage of us, not the other way around.

In contrast, the greatest parasites of them all are the wealthy people who receive what is referred to as "corporate welfare," and these government hand-outs are as large as several millions of dollars per year. These go to individuals, however, who are not in any way needy, and have no personal conception of the concept of poverty, or going without any basic necessities, let alone anything else they may want in addition. Yet, we focus our ire for undeserved state benefits on those who don't have a pot to pee in even with the dole providing them something. We also overlook the fact (willfully, too often) in America that if we didn't have these social programs, people would be starving and going without basic services and shelter in large numbers, eventually becoming far too many for family members and the meager charities that would exist in such a "wild west" form of capitalism to keep up with. This would result in a nightmarish situation for anyone who had to live in these inner cities, and you can rest assured the ever-shrinking number of wealthy people who could afford the now fully privatized police protection would be living in distant communities that were very heavily gated. Not only that, but with vast numbers of people out of work, and with no social programs to give them at least a meager degree of money to spend on anything, the ruling class will find ever-decreasing numbers of people who are capable of purchasing their products and services, even those that were greatly needed, resulting in greater and greater economic crises, more and more lay-offs and downsizing, and more and more police force being required to stem the tide of rising crime and societal backlash, which in turn will result in further and further escalation of these problems as the years pass. And this time, when the banks and various industries collapse, there will be no state to bail them out.

See the classic silent film from the 1920s called Metropolis and you will see a likely end result of this, with the caveat that it was allowed to go on for, say, two centuries.

One thing, you will almost never see these pro-capitalist pundits suggest to end the welfare state, Stahn the Man, is to suggest that providing everyone in the nation who is able-bodied a job, with having a job that pays decent enough wages be a right, and not just a privilege. If the state is faded out or greatly diminished in capacity as these feudalistic pro-capitalists desire, then the capitalists themselves will have to police themselves and society. And please do not for a second believe that a privatized police force and military (imagine Blackwater to the nth degree) will be any more objective or fair to us working class schmucks than those funded and controlled by a state, especially when you consider that the ruling class empowers the state for their benefit in the first place (note the vast amount of laws protecting the privatized nature of industry).

The government does not make it easy for people to be productive; truly productive. There are so many laws, taxes, insurances, special permits and licenses, general restrictions, which keep people from eg. - starting a business and being productive. And so what happens? They are forced to join the welfare parasites. It's almost like society is set up these days to encourage people to become a welfare parasite.

Yup, the government does indeed want us dependent on it, just as we are already dependent upon the corporations. And again, the corporations are the greatest parasite in the world, because they live off of our labor. Imagine again what will happen if legions and legions of workers no longer had any degree of disposable income to purchase their products or services.