What do you think this term means?

[DianaB]

I think that it's all that you've all mentioned but I also think that we saw a lot of people who instead of getting out and making things better for themselves were willing to let the government pay for room and board at motels for as long as they could get it. There were some abuses of the government like that that went on and I think that people got tired of hearing about it. I do realize that there are some people who, for what ever reason, were not able to help themselves (health issues or disabled) and needed that help, but there were a lot that could have done something for themselves too.

We had a flood here last year and a lot of people that I knew lost their homes too, but they were hesitant to accept help from the government. That's not how people do things here. One FEMA employee told my son that the people here were hard to give money to. They just would not accept it.