As long as you talk about "giveaways" and "welfare", you're reinforcing the right's denial of the concept of community, and strengthening the argument for authoritarianism. To think in terms of the government giving and taking is to deny the concept of a government of, by, and for the people, and to follow the strong father figure who will give us all that we need. If we're good, and obedient.

Pretty much all the social programs that benefited the middle class were the result of a people working together to promote the general welfare. They asked the rational question, "how do you ensure a comfortable old-age?", and came up with the rational answer of a socialized retirement savings system. For decades we've asked how to best provide medical care for everybody, we keeping getting the rational answer "single-payer", because the bigger the insurance pool, the greater the efficiency; only to be shot down by insatiable greed and overwhelming wealth. Unemployment insurance, flood insurance, look closely, and a democracy is a gigantic insurance agency. And sometimes union. Government is collectivism.

We the people have a right to structure our society to promote and maximize the general welfare. If that happens to be the formula for socialism, well great, socialism appears to be what the be-pedestaled Founders had in mind (admittedly, for themselves and the other white guys of the time). It's the greedheads who came after who've been trying to rewrite the founding consensus of this country.

Never surrender We the People.