No mommy state yet "social safety net".... You realize this is the same thing right? It's like saying a car is different than a sedan... nah pretty much the same thing. You can split hairs all day, but it's basically the same thing just different specifics.

How about none of that thank you. I've had to work my entire adult life to not have to be a part of any of these programs because where I am from it's shameful to be reliant on these systems, and I know many who can't function without them. The fault most of the time I see it, is on two things. 1 the government takes too much from them making them have to get on these programs where they otherwise wouldn't have to. or 2 They have no budgeting skills and waste way more than they should. In the first case I pity them and call for the government to steal less from us all. In the second I am loud and adamant that I shouldn't have money stolen from me to fund them when they are at fault. Of the people I know on food stamps about 7 out of 10 of them fall into the second category, so the majority by far. I've tried to help a few and always been met with, you don't know what it is like..... I lived off of minimum wage had a home, had food, had a car, and had enough to live on, I also smoked a pack a day and had enough to smoke weed every single day. This was off of a $7.25 minimum wage. How? Why? It's called a budget and it is basic life skill oh SO MANY lack. They buy what they do not need then expect the tax payer to fund their needs when they have wasted money that could've gone to it, while the average working person gets enough money taken out in taxes each month to pay for everything they would eat in that month. I'm more than willing to have a talk about getting that 3 out of 10 the help they need, but those other 7 can go fuck themselves and starve in a ditch because they are leeches surviving off of my hard work and the generosity of big government who is basically buying their votes with my money.