Why are so many conservatives unaware of their dependency on gov’t safety net?

I've often heard tone-deaf conservatives and tea-baggers claim that when you point out that they enjoy the benefits of government programs like medicare and social security, which they endlessly rail against, the typical response is that they "deserve it" and other people don't deserve it.

It fits their entire "us good/others bad" dichotomy, it does no good to point out that they're undermining their own future access to these programs by complaining about government programs that they enjoy.

I think conservatives hate "other people" so much that they would rather shoot themselves in the foot, than live another day while someone, somewhere is enjoying a government necessity program that they're convinced, that those people need to be starved or eliminated from human existence than enjoy something that only they're supposedly deserving to receive.

As others have commented, if living wage jobs were not eliminated to boost CEO salaries to astronomical levels of disparity, then a lot of necessity programs might not be needed.

The problem with some conservatives is that they suffer from cognitive dissonance and as a result, they tell various straw-man pejorative liberals to "get a job" and then they tell people in similar circumstances to get off of welfare regardless of whether or not they have any possible realistic means to escape endemic poverty, yet they say nothing about corporate welfare that they tend to benefit from via dividend income and other handouts that they benefit from via government programs.

Until conservatives are made aware of the fact that all Americans deserve a chance to survive, not just conservative hate-mongers, then the cycle of hatred against other Americans less fortunate than the fortunate few will continue unabated.

All this doesn't even begin to address a laundry list of problems inherent to economic systems that rely primarily upon unregulated forms of capitalism used to economically strip mine entire national economies.

America is based upon a wide-scale economic engine that preys upon deliberate wealth disparity between raping production labor of all inherent intrinsic earning value while simultaneously

redistributing all this looted wealth potential from the working class into as few pockets of non-production labor as possible.

This system of economic strip mining will continue to have the desired affect for the ruling class elite, endemic deliberate poverty which is designed to keep a majority of working class individuals as desperate as necessary in order that these very desperate people are willing to give away their earning potential for mere fractions of pennies on the dollar, just for the opportunity to gain access to some meager scraps of wealth that is but a pittance of what they actually deserve to be paid were they not being robbed constantly by wealth vampires eager to steal production labor profits for themselves for nothing but a false corporate promise of a devalued earning potential job.

It's the saddest of the depraved corporate lies fed American workers every waking moment of their stolen future lives.

Read that today and agree with you and the article.Had Romney,Santorum et al prefaced their rants with "Lets build jobs so people won't need government help" I might have bothered to listen to them but they seem to gloss right over the facts that there aren't enough jobs and certainly not enough jobs with high enough pay to keep a roof over their families heads and feed them.This is the most hard line conservative group of politicians since the late 1800's at a time when people need assistance to survive.They spout family values yet insult those struggling families.

Liked the piece on how the bail outs kept 1.5 million jobs in Detroit yet the GOP is griping about it.

team..i commend you for being willing to work three jobs to recover, many are unable to...i personally know a dozen or so young mothers w/ young children who can't work any more than an 8 hour day given their young children's needs...

and there were even few of those who had considered abortion (based on our current economy) ..and (im grateful) didn't b/c some people i know were wiling to step up...

the social safety net is not enough, and yes, it has been abused...by some...

but the vast majority ive met who have needed nad used it...didn't abuse it...and were grateful for it...

I'm aware of it. I've never had to use it but I'm aware of it. I've worked 3 jobs at one time before when I probably could have just received some welfare instead.

The system is much abused.