Only a tin foil hat would think that people receiving money from a fund that they paid into is being 'on the government dole'.
Here's the thing. Most people on "the Dole" are only on the Dole for a short period of their lives. So the rest of the time, they are paying the taxes that go into "the Dole".
The thing is, this being America, we are fine with Middle Class Welfare like Social Security, Medicare, Unemployment Insurance and Disability, but man, do we get angry when it's designed to help really poor people, like SNAP, TANF, Section 8 or Medicaid.