After a long hard day of getting punched a lot

you look at other people

and you think:

I’m hurt but I know something you don’t

I know the secret of what it takes to hurt me and I bet your secret is the same

And there is space around you on the sidewalk

Everybody thinks about welfare wrong.

Welfare isn’t free money for people that don’t work. Welfare is a cleanup service for people that do.

Thanks to the government, you don’t have to step over all those people every day.

You can just pay maybe an extra point on your taxes and get on with pretending they don’t exist.

I don’t know how you define “service” but I think building a little buffer like that right into society, so I get to do charity every time I pay taxes AND I never have to personally deal with the downtrodden is a great “service.”

The only thing “better” would be a “service” for putting unneeded “quotes” around “things.”