In the 90’s in California, I was in a grocery check-out line behind two Middle eastern women. Their gold jewelry could have fed a hundred people for a year, but they pulled out the food stamps to pay for the groceries. I asked about that situation and was told they were from ‘oppressed countries’ so qualified for food stamps. This graft has been going on for decades. Seems both Partys have no problem with keeping the gravy train moving.
It is FAR worse today.