In the neighborhood in Brooklyn I grew up in people sometimes needed help. They got the help and got off. Watch the movie Cinderella Man. Jimmy Braddock went on welfare. He used it for a short time and got off. Today we just don't have the structure to take care of the Braddock familles. I'm not interested in giving away money. I am interested in helping people who need it. If we can't help honest people in America then I guess I am wrong and we're not a great country. I'm not willing to tell honest down and out people to go to hell.
Great point.
We're not supposed to be the Draconian party; that's the way the Dems have slimed us. We just don't want a bloated welfare state that is sucked on by a bunch of lazy vampires.
But for those who need it, we Republicans should be the first ones asking "Do you need help?" And those who do should have the sense that it's nothing to be ashamed of to accept help as a stop-gap measure so they can pick themselves up and get back to self-sufficiency as soon as possible, which in previous times would be so obvious it wouldn't even need to be stated.