[Chickensoup]

My solution is this:

Stop calling it assistance, call it charity.

Charity-food
Charity-care
Charity-check.

NO one is going to like me, but I include SS, SSDI, Medicare and the like as charity.

Help people remember where the monies come from.

Help to have it be a shame and embarrassment to generation.

[gimme1ibertee]

Stop calling it assistance, call it charity.

Right...that's why I had it in quotations....because it "assists" about as well as a "correctional facility" corrects.
Charity's charity,and prison is prison...you can avoid either one by living right,and being strong and self-sufficient.

[gimme1ibertee]

I include SS, SSDI, Medicare and the like as charity.

Why Social Security? Since you pay into it,why aren't you entitled to it? You should be able to draw on that to help out after your wage-earning years have run out.
There's a big difference between welfare and SS.
The bad thing about SS is that it was put into the general fund so it could be sucked out by every politician with a special-interest group to appease.