Your comment is more true than even you imagine.
What has happened is that the welfare state, and the number of "Takers" has exploded in the last 5 years.
Social Security Disability and SNAP Food Stamp programs have gone off like bomb since Obama was elected. Over 1/2 of a Trillion has been spent on unemployment checks in just the last 5 years.
Unemployment benefits cost: $520 billion
Our government is too cowardly to go after the Takers, so it is punishing those who have loyally served.