It's no different from what goes on in my home state on a constant basis, and has been going on for the last 50 years.
The real shameful part isn't that they're defrauding the welfare system because, let's face it, 99% of the welfare recipients out there would pull the exact same scam if they were smart enough to think of it. The real shameful part is that the government has set up a system that will pay that kind of money to a single mother. They're focusing on the father actually being in the house, the part that bothers me more is the fact that if he wasn't there the government would have no problem with paying someone $85K a year for babysitting. Who in their right mind thinks a single mother should be able to collect $85K of taxpayer money a year for child care?
