OK you list the usual rebuttel from derelict right wing groups to frying in an unconditioned trailer in Texas. So, getting at the issue, for a program to reduce poverty,  an officially declared WAR on Poverty - some 22 Trillion $ and 50 years of "war" has done nothing to significantly reduce it. Trillions of dollars,  added "welfare programs" - now around 80, is NOT working.  So why continue when poverty levels remain stagnant and invested money get's no results. Obviously something is very wrong,  as in broken. Who in Washington is so inept as to not finding out why it is not working! Or...better yet, what is the thinking that , "I as a congress person know it's not working but I will vote to fund it anyway ". WHAT?  Why do they do that? Votes? Re-election?  This is not being responsible with the peoples $$ and is certainly NOT helping reduce the poverty rolls.  Does it encourage dependency?  Are we a Nanny State?  I don't know, but we best get to finding out what's broken and fix it!