Welfare - what is it and who benefits

I am grateful to be able to pay taxes and that unemployment insurance exists for those of us who through no fault of our own lose our jobs. I have a lot of customers who use government assistance and can readily empathize with them. I dont know how people even survive at minimum wage jobs. They have to work a full 40 hours just to scrape by. They cant make enough to get ahead.Things happen in life. People get hurt...they get sick...they fall behind. It is our governments duty to help the less fortunate.Lets talk about the myths.

What gets me is that the facts show that the wealthy are distancing themselves from the rest of us...but that their debt to society is ideologically accepted by the masses yet shunned by the wealthy themselves. How can they accept more wealth and yet deny a social safety net to the casualties of free market economics?

I swear! You two! Welfare is what kept me from being broke in between jobs. I would never take advantage of it, nor would i have refused it. Social safety nets are necessary...without them, people could lose their homes, become homeless...lose their medicines and get sick...all unforeseen perils.

I must confess that at times I have felt entitled...much like Cats Eye. My counselor says that entitlement is a hallmark signature among problem gamblers, if that counts as any excuse.

This actually makes sense.