Won't call for an end to social security, Medicare or unemployment insurance ? Why should we - WE WORKED FOR IT.
except, no, you really didn't. If you live to be 72, you will get everything you paid into Social Security back. If you are unemployed for more than 5 weeks, you will get back everything your employer paid into Unemployment. As for MediCare... just have one good cancer treatment, and that will pay back everything you paid into Medicare.
Section 8 housing, food stamps and such, have been abused severely by some who receive them, and by politicians who ignored the proper management of such programs. They have expanded to huge levels where as they (the politicians) saw it as a huge voting block that would tie the hand outs to a political party "The Democrats".
I agree these programs ARE being abused- by the One Percent.
40% of people on Food Stamps have jobs. Just not jobs that pay well enough to put food on the table. But big corporations like WalMart and McDonalds are happy to tell their employees how to apply for these benefits so they don't have to pay living wages.