Interesting that so many Americans have no idea that it was Bill Clinton as president who drastically cut welfare benefits in 1996 and left no recipient or potential one out. Clinton's "Welfare to Work" program left a public benefit system that mostly assists seniors financially who have a low Social Security income, people who are disabled and has allowed big corporations like Walmart and McDonalds to offer low wages that place their workers personal work income under the federal guidelines and allows those low income workers to get food stamps, housing, medicaide and financial assistance depending on income and family size.  I do not think that anyone in 1996 who made a "good" law that allows a person to work a low wage job  (better than not working) and still get some government benefits had a clue that big corporations would allow the government to pay their employees out of public money. For those who think that people on public benefits are living it up, get your facts straight.