Actually you might do well to understand some macro-economic workings of the social programs vs. the upper end.
From economists, to the CBO, the consensus is that the recipients on the bottom rung of the socio-economic ladder spend all of their "handouts" on the local economy. Groceries, transportation, utilities, etc- it's generally all spent in their local economy, giving impetus employers in producing those things they buy.
By & large the corporate welfare programs don't increase their revenues from earnings, it doesn't increase their employment, it generally pads the bottom line. The companies, usually increase their dividends, do stock buybacks or hold the $ internally. This money is usually reinvested with the shareholders or company, (a very narrow slice of the population), and is NOT injected into the local economy.
So while private jones is using his snap $ to buy groceries, (farmers producing & selling, grocers hiring workers & suppliers to execute the business, etc). Blindem & Robbem are using their welfare to eliminate business/personal risk, and enhance their profits- which generally do NOT go back to stimulating the economy as those $ sit in the investment accounts, or to a very narrow industry segment (the Bently, etc).
The sugar industry is a poster child for this (billions annually in federal "aid"). You can easily learn what's really going on (google- plenty articles if your first selection seems biased), and the mainstream media just doesn't cover it, while the right wing media would have you believe that the poor folks are the only culprits consuming $$ from the federal trough.
So while there needs to be some entitlement reform, social spending reform, let's not be ignorant that there is an entire stream of federal $$ going to corporate welfare that must be reformed as well.
A very good & brief primer, if your open to understanding some macro economics, is here- it illuminates the fact that "demand" is what creates jobs & lifts the economy (GDP), not largess at the top.
Rich People Actually Don't Create The Jobs - Business Insider