Here in the states, welfare is much less than 1% of the annual federal budget. I am not exactly sure why you think there is so much "sponging" going on.
Those of you that encourage government to prevent people from breeding are the worst kind of shortsighted morons. Why is everyone's first reaction to a problem "Big brother should fix that?"
For those of you who never made it past ECON 101, if there was less fiscal burden of government (ie big brother got smaller), there would be less welfare.
Next issue?