Reagan gutted social services to keep entirely imaginary "welfare queens" from getting a free ride. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/09/welfare

Reagan gutted social services to keep entirely imaginary "welfare queens" from getting a free ride. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/09/welfare-queen-myth/501470/ https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/09/welfare... Jeb Bush, plausible presidential candidate, wrote a piece called "Restoration of Shame" arguing that the problem with America is that welfare recipients and single parents aren't ashamed enough. http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2015/06/12/jeb_bush_shames_poor_and_single_moms_america_still_does_the_same.html http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2015/06/12/jeb_bush_sha... The current president doesn't want poor people in his Cabinet. http://us.blastingnews.com/news/2017/06/donald-trump-shames-poor-americans-at-iowa-rally-defends-hiring-billionaires-001792959.html http://us.blastingnews.com/news/2017/06/donald-trump-shames-... America has some of the worst public healthcare in the western world, despite spending more per capita on healthcare than any other nation in the world. http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-healthcare-comparison-20170715-htmlstory.html http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-healthcare-comparison-20... And this is what all that does to poor people. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/12/food-stamps-poverty-america-shame https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/12/food-s... America would rather throw money away than see it go to anyone who doesn't "deserve" it.