[Write Winger]

I have yet to witness a government program that "assisted the needy" without degenerating into a permanent entitlement blown way out of proportion to the original problem and making the original perdictions of cost look like an optimistic guess.

If you can't see the difference between supporting ones family whom we are responsible for and propping up multiple generations of people from cradle to grave because somewhere along the way it became more important to purchase their self respect than to actually move them towards self sufficiency then you are probably a perfect democrat. Your relativism has clouded your ability to discern compassion from compulsion. If you think my providing my offspring with a room and not charging him rent is the same as people who are adults demanding and getting the fruits of my efforts to pay their rent then you are not living in reality. The support of my son is by love, compassion and voluntary....the support of the parasite class is by force and threat of imprisonment for me.