The value of a public ‘safety net’ is that it maintains stability in communities. But when the ‘safety net’ becomes the community itself (greater than 10%) it becomes the system. That is suicidal.

Exceeding a 10% threshold should only happen in times of national catastrophe (think Dustbowl), but its unsustainable levels are due primarily to illegal immigration and government using public monies as a slush fund.

Those two factors far outweigh the fraud of people really not qualified abusing the system, or even the intransigent acceptance of a poverty class of citizenry.

If we dealt with illegal immigration — which is really foreign occupation, and cut off the spigot of unchecked government spending, our medicaid and food stamp program could be contained and managed as intended.