Here's a check?
I'd rather it be "Here's a job".
All of these "programs" and free shit we have is what continues to hold these people down. We need to give them hope, starting with better opportunities for education, and get them working in good jobs. That's the fix.
The government is already the largest employer in this country. That’s not even accounting all the independent contractors they have hired to replace fired govt employees- whose salaries the govt ultimately pays.
Sometimes the poor and people down on their luck need a little bit of help. The problem is with the corruption and abuse of the system/programs. These programs weren’t meant for people to stay on indefinitely. And programs like Medicare/Medicaid have +/- $100 billion annually in fraud. Every 10 years that’s a trillion f’ing dollars.
And a lot of that fraud is committed by wealthy doctors. I knew a lady who was a wealthy eye doctor that got caught by the Feds billing Medicare for all different kinds of procedures she claimed she did- problem is she was at the Olympics, at Wimbledon, in Monaco- all over the world when she claimed she was doing medical procedures. Literally only reason she got caught is because her office manager/billing lady got hooked on drugs, got fired, became a craigslist hooker to support he drug habit, and then tried black-mailing the Dr for $20,000.
The Dr told her to F off and this drug addicted hooker went and got an attorney and the attorney contacted the FBI and the rest is history. Amazingly the Dr didn’t lose her license to practice medicine or go to jail, and made a plea deal with the Feds to pay $1.3 million back and got a slap on the wrist.
The fired meth hooker got a whistle blower fee of 15% I want to say. Moral of the story? If you’re guilty as sin and someone tries black-mailing you just pay them off.
There’s no easy fix for anything. There’s always going to be pros and cons to everything and unforeseen and unintended consequences of anything you try and do.