Right there is the problem. Who says the programs are intended to help? When viewed from the perspective that the programs are intended to create a dependent class that will vote for you 90+% of the time, then the programs are spectacularly successful. Why would those who put the programs in place and benefit from them to such extreme have ANY incentive to change them?
Libs (the well intentioned dupes mind you) remind me of Kindergartners wanting to help only to slow down and mire those adults they are wanting to help but because they did it with “good intentions” they get a pass on their destructive behavior.
Well unfortunately there is no control group.
We can’t see how the author’s policies, or lack thereof, would have actually turned out.