This is an extremely sore issue with me.  I put two stars because, I KNOW that some people really need assistance.  The ones that burn me up are the people dressed in furs and dripping jewels, driving their Escalades and using food stamps (or, in MI, referred to as The Bridge card) at the grocery store.  I was a single parent of two and guess what?  You just work another job ~ or go to school and find a better job.  I think that Mitt Romney hit it on the head when he proposed that "welfare" should be handled by the churches ~ as it was pre-FDR.  Too many people looking for hand-outs.  To elaborate on the SOME people, I believe that some people CAN'T physically work - but, there are always at-home jobs.  The medicl insurance part is the only thing I can say that is worthwhile of the whole system.  People need to be responsible, and be held accountable ~ not to some over-worked social worker, but to the tax paying public.  I think we let some people get away with being on this program for far too long.