Imagination? I think not, the number maybe off by some %%, but lets face the facts, once you stick your nose in the trough of entitlements it's difficult to leave.
The bottom line is liberals create and maintain constituents via social programs and the perpetuation of victimization. Conservative alienate constituents via expectations of responsibility and effort.
Ben Franklin had it right. “When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.”