Someone who lives off the government assistance’s that doesn’t want to work at all. But if you are on welfare and have a part time job good for you because you are not a welfare rat. Atleast your trying to make ends meat.
Heywelfare rat you can’t use your Foodstamps to buy a case of Coca Cola while you have a part time minimum wage job. As we say fuck them atleast we grinding out here.
Multi-generatonal, long-term user of everything the system has to offer. Takes Full advantage of & expects all the freebies the government has to offer. Has never worked, with no plans to ever. Probably lived in Erie County, Ohio at one time or another, due to its easy access to public assistance programs.
Mike: Fred never goes to work, but still manages to have nice things. I don't think his dad ever worked either. How do they do it?
Monte: Simple, he's a career welfarerite. Learned it from his daddy!
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)