No, like your parents or grandparents receiving Medicare for health care and Social Security being there as expected. Like safety net programs for people who have no health insurance (as minimal as it is), like children receiving hot lunches in our schools, like helping rebuild our crumbling infrastructure and make our highways and bridges safe, like having a FDA that protects our food and drug supply.

All rabid rightwingers see are handouts to "welfare queens" when far more money is handed out to rich men in suits who feed at the trough of the federal government. It's not a matter of the government spending money - it's a matter of who they're spending it on. Corporate welfare far outweighs the kind of U.S. assistance we define as "welfare." AFDP (Aid To Families with Dependant Children) ended in 1996 when Bill Clinton signed welfare reform into law. The replacement, Temporary Assistance To Needy Families, is welfare-to-work and has a five-year lifetime limit......but billions continue to flow into corporate coffers from you and me. That's the kind of dependance I don't like!