I'm sympathetic to the basic point that most of the money spent by the government supposedly on the poor doesn't get to them, but their analysis is so poorly presented, or so half assed in the first place, that I can't tell if there is much truth or sense in the main claim. Ugh!
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/over-60000-welfare-spentper-household-poverty_657889.html
60000 dollars per year per poor family, if the article is correct.