It's tough to counter vague generalizations. "in some cases". Like what?
I think I gave examples earlier. But let me try again. Here's a real life example. There's a wife and mother who is ill, mental illness, husband has to take her and the kid to work with him, for everyone's safety. He could quit work, go on welfare, but not his way, not how he was brought up. He loses the car. He has to use the company truck. He has too few dollars, no health insurance, and the wife is running up bills. He needs a diversion for the child, gets a TV. He needs a way to call for help when he needs it. He gets a cell phone, even though his house form has been shut off due to lack of payment. He has a computer his brother in law gave him. So he has those things, but food is hard to come by, so he eats a the home of family memebrs and friends too often, takes a lot of gruff about bad decisions, but he doesn't know what else he can do, and the good conservative family memebers aren't actually jumping in to help. You know, your bootstraps and all.
The pay check comes and he has to manage medications, bills, and the situation he is in. Anything he does, he loses something. And sometimes, he says **** it, and has a moment. He feels guilty later, but there is little support out side of a few good friends he later says saved his life.
Now, I was one of the friends, one of the few, and this person is not the only one I know like this. Work in the business for a awhile helping peopleand hearing their stories, and you'll learn a lot, or just hate everyone. Depends on your temperment and world view I think. I don't know how to link this type of thing. But what I know is everyone has a story. And I have enough education to know there is a blindness when your in the fight, a blindness that obstructs your view and doesn't allow you to see the chocies. I know that from being there. I was kicked out of my house at 16, lived on the streets awhile, and could not see my options until I was well past thirty. Good people, good liberals, taught me how to fish. I came to it late, so I have a lot of bad habits still, but I would not be here without them. Not saying I didn't work. But I know how easy it is to be lost. Don't know how to say it any clearer. But people can't be reached with platitudes and easy answers. You have to get dirty.
And you have to understand the human condition, which is messy and anything but logical.