OP said 'we'. Perhaps my psychic abilities are malfunctioning, but how do you see that this is a case for using clearly? The OP can't understand the inability for people to pay for things without government assistance, as if there aren't vast swaths of people who can't afford the very thing he is presupposing. People who are struggling should be considered and the very fact that the use of 'we' somehow excludes them in those considerations is kind of the point.
