There are plenty of people in America who don't like governmental handouts to those who appear to be undeserving of them, in the belief that the more handouts we have, the more the taxpayers, in general, will get ripped off and thus this isn't fair to those who actually labor for a living. To a certain degree, we can respect this viewpoint, if only we were to modify it to stipulate that those that are capable of working, should labor, and that handouts that this government provides through the taxation impose upon the people, should be primarily designated to those truly in need, such as the infirmed, the aged, and others of that general sort. In other words, help the helpless, but refrain from helping those that should be able to help themselves.
One thing that seems to be forgotten from all those that desire to see less welfare or more stringent conditions imposed upon that welfare, is that the vast majority of Americans are not shiftless or deadbeats by nature, for they definitely desire to labor, but are often precluded or discouraged from doing such because this nation does not believe that those that honestly labor are fairly entitled to a living wage, and also this nation apparently does not believe in the sensibility that all Americans are entitled to a good education, and that opportunity for Americans should take into fair account historical discrimination, as well as unfair discrimination that still occurs today.
The very best way, therefore, to reduce handouts, especially for those people who look like they should be capable of working, is to see that they are properly educated, along with impressing upon them an ethical social code that society needs all of its members to adhere to, and finally providing them with the fair opportunity to achieve employment at a living wage.
Look, every child born in the United States should be afforded a fair opportunity to get properly educated, to learn social responsibilities, and to be provided with fair access to a living wage. These are the fundamentals that American governance needs to concentrate its efforts upon, because the bottom line is that children do not give up unless they are in a debilitating structure that simply doesn't care about them and have not yet personally developed the tools to better themselves, in which those children will eventually become adults, without any real semblance that they will ever find a pathway to meaningful success.
So too, it needs to be recognized that there are plenty of good people who will, at some point in their lives, need a helping hand, and this government should keep foremost in its mindset that those who are provided with help are the same who will not only appreciate receiving that care, but will oftentimes determine to make good on those who cared for them in their most vulnerable moments by contributing back to society in some form or another as their way of showing appreciation, and of paying back those who had faith in them and sincerely valued them as a person.