Savings and Taxes: The real safety net is savings. That is a hell of a lot harder to have when between sales taxes, income taxes, property taxes, and a million other taxes, suck away almost every extra penny of income we have. For most middle class earners, the combination of all the taxes sucks up to 40% of our income. They act so generous giving us $600 to $2000, how about not fucking taxing the hell out of us to begin with?

Regulations: The real safety net is having an economy where regulations don't kill small companies. A million dollars worth of compliance regulations for walmart is nothing, it doesn't even show up as a rounding error on their bottom line. But for ma-pa grocery store, it can devastate them. All to often, large companies and cartels, and their cronies in government are using regulations not to protect people but to lock out competition. They blab on about "safety" and "protecting the environment", but when you look at the details it's all bullshit.

Money and Investment: The real safety net is having honest money, not money that is constantly watered down by the federal reserve, not money that enters the economy as an eternal stream of debt. In order to protect ourselves from the constant reckless monetary expansion, people are forced to invest their savings in to various financial schemes. Maybe housing, maybe stocks, who knows. The point is, the common man is forced to play the gauntlet just to protect the capital from the income he has already earned.

Jobs: The real safety net is a healthy free market for jobs. In a healthy economy a laid off employee should be able to walk down the street and find another job that very day, in most cases. If you want to make it easy for employers to hire people, make it twice as easy for employers to FIRE people. Don't make them run the gauntlet of eternal liabilities for unemployment insurance, discrimination lawsuits, reporting compliance. Don't make them be the governments personal accountant and verifier for every employee. Let employees get their foot in the door, let them get initial experience, YES, even if that means they earn less than a "living wage" at first. Do an internet search for "the racist history of the minimum wage", to learn how it was first put in by Democrats not as a "living wage", but to put in a wage floor just high enough to fuck black workers out of the workplace and make sure they couldn't compete with the all white trade unions.

Health care: In the real safety net, health care is affordable to the common man because they aren't using regulations to lock out competition. What part of free market capitalism would lock out the bulk import of most generics? What part of free market capitalism would forbid you from building a health care facility unless you got regulatory approval from all your competitors called "a certificate of need"? What part of free market health care would require a doctor with a 7 year medical degree to treat ailments that are handled by nurse practitioners in almost every country on the planet? What part of free market health care would require a billion dollars worth of regulatory approval for new medicines, or even medicines that are already widely used in Europe?

Housing: In the real safety net, housing is affordable. The fact is, our reckless monetary policy (see above) is causing people to use housing as "an investment" instead of just a place to live. People insist on all sorts of crazy and stupid zoning laws to protect home values in the housing market, because their life savings is stuck in those houses. This has been a constant disaster of constant housing bubbles, and constant debt. At least with debt that goes towards a factory, you produce jobs and productive output. But ironically, a house only maintains it's value over the long term, if the economy it's in is also productive. That can't happen when the entire economy is propped up with speculative bubbles.

Education: In the real safety net, government doesn't back student loans for stupid degrees, and colleges have to compete. And like in every market, competition improves quality while it drives down prices. Also, instead of your government schools teaching your children to hate white people while they embrace 50 different genders, they teach them how to be a success in the real world, because that's what the market needs and wants, and what every parent wants for their child. Successful children are more likely to successfully navigate the real world.

Charity and religion: In the real safety net, you have savings, jobs, affordable health care and housing, lots of entrepreneurship and investment. Making charity a lot less needed, but having lots of excess for those who do need it. People who need help have a million options, instead of one option, the government. And people who give help have a million times more flexibility, like to put conditions on helping people. As in, it's not an entitlement, you can't be an eternal loser and expect people to constantly bail you out at others expense. This causes charity to become part of the culture, and that often shows up in the form of strong communities and churches.

In sum: People talk about the government providing a safety net and a living wage, affordable health care, and housing, and education. But the truth is, if we want any of that WE NEED TO KICK THE GOVERNMENT THE FUCK OUT.