The number one cause of poverty in the United States is considered children. And the fact that the US welfare system is highly abused is sad also. I have many family members like my cousin who has 3 kids and lives with her boyfriend who has a job and she collects welfare and food stamps. It's illegal for welfare recipients to be living with someone who has a job and is providing them with aid since she's just getting welfare for expensive clothes and alcohol.

I mean if you work at a minimum wage job and live in an apartment it's physically possible to get by. It's the moment when people say, "Well Sally has 2 kids and it's physically impossible for her to get by just on minimum wage alone". Well maybe Sally shouldn't have had kids when she was not financially secure, or she shouldn't have put herself into the position where it was possible.

I totally understand where you're coming from. America is a society that holds individualism very high.

To put it into an analogy to the others reading: There are 3 children sitting on a playground playing with toys. There is Cindy, Billy, and Tommy. Cindy's parents are fairly well off and she has 3 toys to play with. Billy's parents are of average income and only has 1 toy to play with. Tommy's parents are poor and he has no toys to play with. Cindy sees Tommy having nothing to play with and she becomes concerned. She decides to give him one of her toys to help him out and they're all happy.

--See that Cindy was willing to give her toy to someone who was unable to have one. What a nice girl. This relates someone helping another who cannot help themselves. Satan_pro_tips would most likely agree with doing this because Tommy would fall under disabled people.--

Now, after this Billy takes his toy and throws it on the ground smashing it into pieces. He becomes quite upset and blames it on someone else. He gets infuriated and starts yelling very loudly. The teacher comes and sees Billy sad and tells Cindy to give her other toy to Billy. Now, Cindy is quite pissed off about this because she knows that Billy doesn't deserve the toy and tries to tell the teacher. The teacher tells Cindy if she doesn't give her toy to Billy she will go in time out for not sharing. Cindy does reluctantly and starts to loathe Billy's existence.

--Here we have the welfare system broken down into a situation a 5 year old could understand. However, it is more complicated, but this is a simplification to why people dislike it. People are glad to help others, just not those who make bad decisions and put themselves in their position.--