I'm guessing you're misguidedly referring to the Permanent Fund Dividend. The PFD is a split of the stock market profits (after compensation for inflation) earned from investing oil revenues. It was established in 1980 by the Alaska state legislature, and has nothing at all to do with the federal government.

Ahhh, Americans. What would we do without you. Probably laugh a whole lot less.

Why do you keep insisting that I'm attempting to impress anyone? I don't think I did anything impressive. I think I did what should be expected of a person. People don't deserve a free ride, just because they can't succeed.

The statistics show that most welfare recipients are in their 20s, white or black, unwed mothers of 1-2 children who leave the program after 2-5 years. Certainly not an easy situation to handle on one's own, but also not impossible. I'd rather see more laws put in affect for required paternity tests, and greater responsibility for deadbeat dads, than just handing out money.

But statistics also can't show you how many of those couples are together but unmarried. They don't show you how many of those men have jobs, but they don't marry because that would eliminate the welfare benefits. And there's still the 20% that continue to have babies on the system, and stay on it more than 5 years and cost a lot more than the ones who are just on the system for a moment.

You'd be laughing in German, pal!!

Impossible. Germans are physiologically incapable of laughter. Sinister chuckles sure, and possibly a maniacal chortle now and again, but never laughter.

Except under the influence of beer.

You can claim statistics differ from what I say without citing sources but I have to provide them?

OK here's what the good old internet has to offer for you:

The first thing that pops up on a google for welfare statistics:
1973 and 1992
Traits of families on AFDC (1)

Race
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White 38.8%
Black 37.2
Hispanic 17.8
Asian 2.8
Other 3.4

Time on AFDC
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Less than 7 months 19.0%
7 to 12 months 15.2
One to two years 19.3
Two to five years 26.9
Over five years 19.6

Number of children
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One 43.2%
Two 30.7
Three 15.8
Four or more 10.3

Age of Mother
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Teenager 7.6%
20 - 29 47.9
30 - 39 32.7
40 or older 11.8

Status of Father 1973 1992
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Divorced or separated 46.5% 28.6
Deceased 5.0 1.6
Unemployed or Disabled 14.3 9.0
Not married to mother 31.5 55.3
Other or Unknown 2.7 5.5

Here are some statistics from 1996:
http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/ofa/cfc_fy96.htm
3,431,682 Female Parents
44.8% 20-29 Years Old

501,119 Male Parents
35.4% 25-34 Years Old

31.6% White Children
38.4% Black Children
22.4% Hispanic

0 Adult Household # of Recipient Children
928,312
52.6% One
30.3% Two
11.8% Three
3.5% Four
1.8% Five+

1 Adult Household # of Recipient Children
3,223,242 Total
43.1% One
29.3 Two
15.5% Three
6.2% Four
2.2% Five+

2 Adult Household # of Recipient Children
351,754 Total
27.0% One
34.8% Two
19.9% Three
9.0% Four
7.8% Five+

One or Both Parents Absent
8,754,106 Children
12.4% Divorced/Legally Separated
11.9% Separated But Not Legally
25.6% Not Married, Paternity Established
33.0% Married, Paternity Unestablished
1.8% Other
0.6% Child Not Born Yet
8.3% Unemployed Parent
1.6% Deceased Parent
4.3% Incapacitated Parent
0.6% Unknown

Length of Time on Welfare
34.3% 1 Year or Less
16.3% 1-2 Years
27% 2-5 Years
22.4% 5+ Years
0.1% Unknown

Prior Receipt of Welfare
43.5% Have received welfare before.
43.1% Have not.
13.5% Unknown

Edit: I found 2006 data, it basically lines up with previous data.
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/ofa/character/FY2006/indexfy06.htm
The ACF Website is not fun to navigate.

*chortles maniacally*

I hope you notice this contradicts absolutely everything you've said about people with welfare having no motivation to get off it.

No no, it's totally in there. See:

This thread is just...wow.

Oh you English are soo superior aren't you? Well you know where you'd be without the good old U.S. of A? The smallest fucking province in the Russian Empire, that's what!