Someone who is unsympathetic to the plight of others and wraps it in a conservative blanket deserves to be on DU - that means you! I’ve seen it all too, and apparently, we have both seen the good and the bad. Yes, there is fraud, but what program doesn’t have some fraud connected to it? Even corporations have fraud.
I suggest you adopt oh say about 4 families and buy their groceries for them for a year, if you are so charitable. Which I know that you aren’t.
Government is the least effective and least efficient means of helping the poor, I would reckon that at least HALF of all welfare dollars go to the bureaucracy instead of the poor.