Merry Christmas, welfare queens

With Christmas all around us, let’s reflect on what Christmas is about. If we pull back from all the fuss, we see the true reason for this holiday — the celebration of the birth of Christ. What does that mean? This is the season when people talk about good will to men. However, the “War on Christmas” crowd, which has hysterics when someone says “Happy Holidays,” seems indifferent to conditions affecting millions of Americans. President Ronald Reagan used the phrase “Welfare Queen,” implying that the poor are gaming the system. He said nothing about the rich who game the system, costing taxpayers billions of dollars every year. We seem to have fallen into the trap of thinking that if a person is rich, they are worthy but if a person is poor, it’s their fault.