Self help better than government help

http://thefederalist.com/2016/08/09/why-im-the-only-non-democrat-in-my-family/

"So I'm skeptical of the Democratic Party's claim they are the ones who stand for helping the poor, because creating government programs that give people money is not the same as truly helping them. Quite often, it actually hurts them. Neither are the party's motivations noble; the purpose of these programs is to secure and maintain a loyal voting bloc by making them permanent aid recipients, rather than actually helping them. I can't belong to a party that hurts the poor for the sake of political gain."

This argument is better than I could have done