How does a government facilitate comprehensive care for its constituents without sacrificing equity?

Our government has created assistance programs to those who need it and right now there are a lot of people who do need it but can't get it because their income is too high according to the government (mostly middle class is affected by that). Lets look at the most used government assitance, food stamps. This program was created to help with the cost of food when food was cheaper, ex. milk was $1, and household expenses were very little. It has stayed the same when now a days the price of food has gone up and houseing expenses have also risen, that alone is not fair and shows no sacrifise on the governments part.


We can also take a look at childcare assistance. I know first hand how people take advantage of this and are dishonest so that they can continue to use it when there are people who actually need it. And what do you think the government is doing about this to make it more fair and harder for people to lie about work.....nothing.

I could go on and on about how the government says that they are helping people and are making sacrifices but they aren't. People are just using them to be lazy and I think it should be harder to get on any assistance, not by making the income guidelines higher but more checking up on people with drug tests and in person checking in as opposed to all the letters that are sent through the mail.

This counrty is turning into a lazy, poor, dishonest, selfish country and the government is letting that happen when they could be doing something about it.

Critical Question: In light of the current situation of the government shutdown, do you think that they will make harsher guidlines for government assistance to help save some money for other needed things?