Reply #4: I dunno about this one:

[BayouBengal07]

"They want to build a nanny state that does everything for us"

I thought the point of the welfare state was not to decide everything for everyone, but to give temporary assistance to those who could not get by. For comfortably upper middle class bloggers, they shouldn't have much to worry about. But for the grandmother who can't pay her medical bills there's medicare, for the hungry there's food stamps, etc. It's not like 1984.