Just read this:
www.guardian.co.uk/profile/jonathanfreedland
article, and I think this paragraph says it all, about how one welfare recipient horror smears everyone on any benefit:-
Jonathan Freedland
When George Osborne linked the sickening case of Mick Philpott – now jailed for the manslaughter of six of his own children in a house fire he started – to the state of Britain's benefits system, he knew what he was doing. A student of US politics, he was deploying a favoured technique of the American right, honed during the decades-long culture wars. Dip your hands in the slime of an episode that stirs revulsion – and smear it all over your opponent.
Another stabbing in Sydney today.