As a triage interviewer at a local food/clothing bank, I hear all sorts of stories about how to scam food stamps.
My fav: go to a higher end grocery and buy the choicest cuts of meat. Your cost: $zero. Resell this meat to your friends and neighbors at .25 to .50 cents on the dollar. 100% profit.
I’m apparently not built for that sort of commerce: I would never be able to debase myself and offer a neighbor or a friend ‘discounted’ groceries of any kind.
The casual acceptance of being on the dole has brought Europe to financial ruin and we are well on the way. Lefties want to eliminate the ‘stigma of being on public assistance’ but stigmas are more accurately termed a complex set of societal approvals and disapprovals and have worked to build Western civilization. Lefties, of course, want nothing and nobody standing between them and absolute dependence, which lefties regard as allegiance.