[PhasmaFelis]

Reagan gutted social services to keep entirely imaginary "welfare queens" from getting a free ride. 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_sha...

The current president doesn't want poor people in his Cabinet. 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-20...

And this is what all that does to poor people. 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.

[makomk]

Clinton also apparently played a large role in killing off welfare in the US too: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/02/welfare-reform-bill-hilla... There are some theories that this, and the other ways he screwed the poor and working-class, helped do in his wife's presidential bid.