stingy-attitude people forget that the life you are capable of living by government checks alone is a shitty, miserable life.
I don't begrudge some of my tax money going to people with obvious mental problems who are satisfied with scrabbling up a shitty mcdonald's cheeseburger every day and renting their couch.
i do agree with this alex. i think its completely right and valid to have a program set up to give money to people with problems who have no way of fending for themselves. i think its a moral duty of people to try and help those who can't help themselves.
what i am saying i sympathize with stingy people on is that if some people didn't abuse the system , then more of the money could actually be used to give the people who need it a better quality of life.