This view is usually only shared by those who have never had to deal with all the things that come with being poor. Social Safety nets are just that: safety ne

This view is usually only shared by those who have never had to deal with all the things that come with being poor. Social Safety nets are just that: safety nets. They are not meant to provide a living for everyone, but to cushion the fall for those who have fallen on hard times. To not let the weakest members of the tribe left out when there is no shortage of the basic commodities for existence. We tried Brutal Capitalism before. It lead to all the evils of the Gilded age: poverty, inequality and wanton destruction of the environment by corporations gone amok.