Many of them are simply confused.
"Finally, Cornell Universitys Suzanne Mettler points out that many beneficiaries of government programs seem confused about their own place in the system. She tells us that 44 percent of Social Security recipients, 43 percent of those receiving unemployment benefits, and 40 percent of those on Medicare say that they have not used a government program.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/17/opinion/krugman-moochers-against-welfare.html?hp
Social Security, Unemployment Insurance and Medicare are all paid into by the recipients. Welfare and Food Stamps are not. That is what those people meant. I don't care what kind of dickweed propaganda you want to try and make out of it.
I also want to see where she got these supposed statistics. They look made up to me.
Everyone receiving these benefits, they aren't benefits they are payments made on money received, can just be paid back all the money taken from them, with interest. Then everyone is happy.
Liberals believe that when government takes money from you they have a right to do that. When they give it back, it's a government benefit to which you aren't entitled.
Sort of like they way they think tax cuts work.