When I was a teenager I asked my father why we didn't get food stamps like my friend in class's family did. He said it was because we were a proud working family and working families that can get by do so without welfare that the lower end of the working class that don't try hard enough depend on. I remembered that and have been on the stamps when I had a dire medical problem 2 times in my life. My dad did not mince words, he thought the people on welfare we lazy white trash that if they disappeared tomorrow no one would miss them.