Last month, the Senate Budget Committee reports that in fiscal year 2011, between food stamps, housing support, child care, Medicaid and other benefits, the average U.S. household below the poverty line received $168.00 a day in government support. What’s the problem with that much support? Well, the median household income in America is just over $50,000, which averages out to $137.13 a day. To put it another way, being on welfare now pays the equivalent of $30.00 an hour for a 40-hour week, while the average job pays $25.00 an hour. The states shown for the most part voted to continue this policy in the last election. Should those who receives more than half their income from welfare be allowed to vote for largesse at someone else's expense? (Which would not include social security since that was something you pay for). Are the states in Yellow better off or worse off than the rest of the states in the union economically? OR are they going down the drain with democrat led Illinois leading the way?