why do we need government and social programs ?

They want to make deep cuts and they ask,
'Why do we need government and social programs ?'

To ask this is legitimate when you are told of fraud and corruption, but to eliminate these programs for the unfortunate is to loosen sight of humanity.

Alicia turned 70 years old this year.She was a neighbor upstairs.
She had no family so i used to have tea with her and chat.
She showed me old sepia tone photos of her as young ballet dancer with the symphony. She was beautiful... once.

One day while working in a corporate environment, she was injured. She lost her teeth, broke her wrists and has been living alone on social security and she struggles to make ends meet.  She has spent the past 5 years  trying to claim disability through the courts, so that she can go fix her missing teeth and treat the fibromyalgia that developed from lack of physical therapy funds.

Over time, she became a horder. She could not move around easily and things started to add up and stack up along the walls.
She started having trouble keeping up with her beloved dog and the place kept getting dirtier and harder to keep up.

It got to the point where despite the on-time rent payments, the city was called by the landlord due to suspicious smells coming from the apartment.
Inspectors could not get her to pass up to code and she was given a date to be locked out. She was forced to leave which was going to make her homeless.
She wept to me in her hopelessness.

I called a Social Worker from an Aged Adult Social Program.
He came right away, checked on her nutritional needs and gave her information about shelters and living options. She was scared and hopeless, but we went over the information from the program and that lead to her finding a safe place to call home with a woman she related to right away.
Alicia's room now, is right off of a garden and she doesn't have to go it alone anymore.

The world is not a level playing field
and there are basic human needs that hold a moral priority to corporate machinery.
Angry men of wealth, who live off of the worlds resourses as their own,
and profit without caring about other people, seem to feel like they are entitled to it and fail to recognize all of the contributors to their success.
The roads they drove to their offices on, the people that cook their food in the restaurant, the maids that clean their homes and teach their children. It does take a village and they seem to think they did it alone.

 When in fact, they as leaders should feel honored and grateful to be in the position to tend to the needs of those without any privilege.

Because corporations choose greed over gratitude, government is there to make sure the society is humanistic and in some sort of order.
The ones who don't care, distract us with penis photos of congressmen while they steal our last dollar with a snicker.
The selfish children need to have some boundaries set.

That is why we need government and social programs!