Any time money is being handed out people will line up to get “theirs”. It’s human nature. End all these fake compassion programs. It’s the only way to keep them from being exploited by parasites. Let the politicians fund their own campaigns iykwim.

I worked at a place where clients were provided with expensive restaurant catered meals. Unused food containers were taken to the shipping department after the clients had finished eating where a mob would descend on them. Everybody there sacrificed their dignity for a “free meal”. The price was too high for me. I’m not rich or even well off but I could afford to provide modestly for myself. I had to work with these people so I kept my contempt for them in check by reminding myself I’m worse in many ways, but it reassures me that “God is merciful and loves mankind”. I’ve got plenty to repent myself, but don’t feel obligated to live beneath a cloud of shame. Lord have mercy.

Yes, I collect Social Security now, but it’s money they took from me coming back, so not a “free meal”. Had what they collected from me been placed in a Dow index fund in my name I’d be a millionaire now, but instead I squeak by on 2K/month. I could have invested for myself but didn’t. My fault. Had I the chance to do it over knowing what I do now I might have. I do recommend it. Also don’t tell anyone especially your family you’ve done it, or your own kin will regard you as a “free meal”. Lord have mercy.