[Big Ed]

Wayne, you are trying to do something good and hopefully you can find a way to do so to help a family who is in greater need.

I'm a real estate broker, and a good portion of my work is investment rental properties (both as an agent and as an owner/manager). The most shocking thing I have come to realize about tenants who receive rental subsidies (Section 8 or the like) is that they all have TVs bigger than mine. They also never seem to run out of cash for cigarettes, beer and take out pizza.

Now of course, they don't *all* live like that, it is an exaggeration...but in my experience we're talking a good 50% or more. And what's the story with all the able bodied people on Social Security disability? I swear to God, I run into so many young and seemingly able-bodied people who are "disabled" it is sickening. I'm sure some of them have legitimate disabilities, but there's no way they are all permanently disabled such that there is no job they could perform. It's patent crap.

I don't know how to fix the situation, but it certainly needs fixing. I do believe in social safety nets for the truly needy, I just think the system is so fraught with abuse that it is ridiculous.