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Children eligible for welfare

So we have a low or no crime village with no juvenile deliquency living entirely on their own funds without drug crime, shootings, alcoholism, and the state is doing their utmost to create dependant std ridden, barren, delinquents out of these children.
Bravo Texas!
This should be 100% opposite - and we should be trying to emulate them. We have the sick society, we have the rampant violent crime, drugs, teen delinquency, sex diseases.
FLDS sure seems to be doing something right, while our society is falling to the trash more and more each day.

The problem is that the compound was never self-sufficient. It received money that was either drained from the trust or was accumulated from some other mysterious source.

It doesn't appear that many of the adults have a high school education or a job that drew an income. They have no way of supporting themselves on the compound.

The compound members were reliant on the FLDS to cover their expenses. The materials for their homes were free to them. They weren't paying rent or a mortgage. Their homes were not in their names. If they didn't follow FLDS orders including those that were illegal, they would have no place to live.

In order to get this group to comply with the law, it will be necessary to put them on public assistance. Perhaps, it will make it easier to get FLDS members to comply with the law when they don't risk losing their housing. Through public assistance, they will obtain what most of us have, a basic education, a job skill and a rental home in their name. They will be able to function as independent adults. And their children will be away from those who have committed statutory rape.

Gal50;
No laws have been broken, its a religion and a culture that has been attacked.
There are more underage girls having children in the Colonias of texas - they completely ignored area where 400000 illegals lives in 3rd world squalor, where there is no law - but the texas authorities give the blind eye - until a small quiet, peaceful law abiding group practicies a religion that makes for easy prey.
Putting out false accusations and innuendo's is only adding fuel to the fire of attack on these people.
They will win, and the CPS will be seen for what it is; and the colonias - will remain lawless and oppressed without a blink. Most people don't even know that it exists - Texas's dirtly -big- secret.

I'm totally opposed to the welfare system as it is set up in this country. Down here on the Mexican border, our hospitals have had to close and our DES office is inundated with non-citizens drawing all sorts of government aid. We have many, many young women drawing aid of all sorts as they have multiple children, often by different fathers--and certain fathers sire children by several different women at the same time. A large number of our population get food stamps.
Following the counsel to be self-reliant, our family refused to take these "benefits" and to supply our own needs as best we could. Others chose differently. But the law (however much I disagree with its results) does allow these benefits, even to non-citizens (they say right in the application forms that they will not question you about your immigration status).
Now, if it is legal here, it is legal in Utah for people to receive these benefits. I may disagree with the lifestyle of both groups, but you can't really call it fraud if it is following the legal guidelines.
And in Texas, the FLDS hadn't even applied for benefits. So, how is that welfare fraud?

Why is it that people who cry foul when it is pointed out that particular minorities recieve a disproportionate amount of welfare have no problem doing the same thing with regard to FLDS members. Following the logic of the Left, poverty proves discrimination. Ergo the fact that FLDS are disproportionately on welfare means they should recieve preferential treatment in college entry, government contracts, etc, etc.