Tea party people held up signs at rallies that read "keep government out of my medicaid".
A huge number of people have no idea how the shit they use every day actually works. They don't care as long as it seems to work. Then they become shocked when like, they ask to get rid of the thing they rely on, and somebody goes and gets rid of it.
Yup. Back when I worked for our state's umeployment office, I would often be told that
1. I was one of the good ones
2. Then they would start talking about the "others" who abuse the system while they put in, and they don't want the government to take away their benefits but in the very next sentence will say the government shouldn't extend federal extensions because it's their tax money being wasted.
I just look at them. I got written up once for educating someone under the guise of intimidating the claimant.