The safety net is not supposed to be something that catches people at the very bottom, anyway. It’s supposed to stop you falling all that way. That’s why paying more unemployment insurance is a better idea than being Ayn Rand about it— you can stop the downward slide.

This whole thing is just fucking disgusting. Trying to claim only a tiny percentage of people in the US are really poor, trying to claim the middle class don’t also rely on the safety net, and trying to pretend that the safety net is adequate.

What a bullshit artist.