I'm sure many of you have read about my old range buddy. He hasn't worked since 1985, but gets along just fine (just bought a nice late model car). He's been going shooting several times a week for 24 years and I haven't because, as he put it, "you have to work."
My neighbor has a much nicer house than mine. When he was laid off, they got food stamps and all the other goodies. He got new windows, siding and a new garage with an assist from a county program that pays for removing parts of houses that have lead paint. His wife has never worked.
In January of 2008, an old friend of my wife decided he was sick of working. He spent all of last year getting drunk and sitting around his apartment. When he ran out of money this year, and things were looking bad, another friend of my wife who knows how to scam the system told friend #1 about all the freebies available from the government. He even got a new cell phone.
The advisor (friend #2) has been operating antique stores under the government radar for decades. Didn't pay taxes of any type. Meanwhile he's been getting all sorts of freebies, from health care to rent assistance.
This is just a few of the bloodsuckers I know are bleeding the rest of us. I'm sick of it.