They would never KNOWINGLY dispense help to people who don't need it. But neither should government if it's set up right.
This is an 8 year old's excuse. "I can't wash dishes because I don't get them clean." BS. Government can absolutely do this well if it is set up right. Measure the effectiveness and independently audit and change management unless and until it gets better.
You are either naive about the nature of government, young, or you are a spy from the DUmp.
To repeat for the 1,000,000 time -- governments can and never will do "it well." Please read Milton Friedman and listen to the speeches of Reagan.
Government by it's very nature is obscenely wasteful of OPM (other people's money). By design government programs always grow.
There are NO market mechanisms to measure the performance of these programs.
We have about 40M people on Foods Stamps. Anyone with any view of reality would know the vast amount of those people could do fine without them. But the government wants to ensnare as many people as possible -- it provides growth to government and power over the people.
I believe in Liberty and the goodness of a free people. You always seem to be rabid in your support of an activist Federal government.
Private charities will always be superior to ANY and ALL government undertakings.
Imagine 20 years ago, turning over all cell phone development and production to the Federal government. We would still have brick phones. The government would have no incentive to innovate and be efficient. The government would have no fear of going out of business -- no competitors.
We would not have smart phones, or tablets or new VLSI device developments. We have all these nice things because fellow humans work at different companies working hard to product products that other humans desire.
These companies are judged by profits which is nothing more than the votes of people with their dollars. The marketplace left alone provides the greatest benefits to the people.
The innovation in the healthcare industry will soon be destroyed by Obamacare and the 13,000 pages and more of government red tape. Bureaucrats will soon infect and destroy what is left of the best medical system in the worlds. They will squash competition and risk-taking.
How is that going to help the poor or needy?
Every single big problem our Republic faces is the direct and purposeful result of government action -- be it in Education, Health, Energy supply, the Housing market, etc.