Why Welfare doesn't work if they won't even try

This won't come as a shock to you. The woman at the Obama Rally who got the free house is a welfare queen. Working the system.

At President Obama's town hall meeting in Fort Myers on Tuesday, Henrietta Hughes stood up and told the President she has been homeless since 2003 and can't find a job.

She also says she's reach a dead end with government assistance and none of the local charity agencies will help.

However, a local organization is coming forward saying Hughes isn't being honest about how much help she's had in the past.

The director of We Care Outreach Ministry, Tanya Johnson, says just last month she offered Henrietta Hughes permanent housing and a place to stay free for three months, but Hughes refused.

"We would have allowed her to stay for the first 90 days, no income. You know free," said Tanya Johnson.

We Care Outreach Ministry is a faith based organization in Fort Myers.

Johnson says she also gave Henrietta and her son Corey, money, food and offered Corey job training courses, but it was refused.

"We have extended a lot of her services to her," Johnson said.

But Henrietta Hughes says these services weren't free and the apartment in East Fort Myers came with a price tag.

Hughes says Tanya Johnson wanted $400 a month immediately.

The disability check Hughes gets is a little more than $800 a month.

Hughes owes money on a loan, has her car insurance payment, a monthly storage bill and says she couldn't afford the rent.

"Where was I going to get $400 a month to give her if I got these expenses," Hughes told WINK News.

WINK News Reporter Nick Spinetto went back to talk to Tanya Johnson.
She stands by her story.

Henrietta Hughes says she's never taken advantage of the system and doesn't choose to be homeless. Like other programs she's tried to get help from,she says We Care couldn't meet her needs.

I am not sympathetic at all. I know many like this. People who work the system in the City of Chicago. They are wonderful people, but totally without any motivation to exert actual effort on behalf of themselves. Sadly Obama gives her a kiss and makes it all better. She gets a free house from a REPUBLICAN.

Turns out she is good at living off the kindness of strangers except she isn't a good looking as Blanche DuBois.

That's why I am not big on supporting homeless shelters. They need to come with severe strings attached when they give help. Most efforts to help the homeless is enabling people who have learned to work the system.

This is a tragedy worthy of an opera.