I'm on Social Security (yes, I'm old), but I paid for it over the course of 48 years of working for a living. Do you consider me to be a freeloader? Would you be okay with the government cutting SS? I'm also on Medicare. Would it be okay to cut that?
Welfare and other subsistence programs are a small fraction of the budget, about 6% of the total, so cutting them only punishes the poor, who are mostly elders and disabled, including tens of thousands of veterans. Freeloaders in your opinion. But cutting those funds would not add much to the budget, it would just make for good press to people like you who are convinced that all poor people are lazy good for nothings.
This is from a few years ago, but still applies. In fact, the waste has gotten even worse.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/charle...cent-1-8-trillion-spending-bill/#68b4e5fb68cd
Forbes is not a left wing source, so don't come back at me with that excuse. Read it, all of it, then come back and refute any part of it, if you can. You could also google the same thing I did, "defense programs that are a waste of money." There's more where this came from, even one from the ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation.