Too bad this isn't Soviet Russia or some other communist country, because just giving people money is not the governments or taxpayers job. This is a Capatilist country where people are given freedom, freedom to flourish and freedom to fail. It is not the governments job to go around giving out handouts and band aids to people who fall down. Plus there are a lot of people who have gotten themselves into those situations from there own laziness and stupidity. People in this country have the ability to make there own choices and pull themselves up by the bootstraps if they fail.
And as for taxing the shit out of the rich, they are not the countries bank who are there simply to have money taken from them. They work just as hard, if not harder, than anyone else for there money, that's why they are rich. It is idiotic and discriminatory to tax one economic level a ton and others very minimaly. They are rich because they worked for it and have the right to be and stay rich.
Plus, this entire program, giving money to the poor, takes TONS of money, money that we don't have so we will only be adding to the national debt and increasing spendign which is exactly what got us into the hole in the first place. If we stop excessive government spending, including the rediculous amount of earmarks from congress and from both parties, then we can decrease the national debt, stop borrowing money from China, and let things in our economy work themselves out, which they will if we let them.
Usually I don't get into these rants, but i was bored, and feeling politically passionate. Oh and btw, McCain.