frank ballenger wrote: “Paul Harvey had a show where he said people forced to take welfare and food stamps tried to keep the shameful secret from neighbors and friends in their church congregations. Later decades the term was “entitlements” and people started defiantly and openly demanding government money and benefits because “I am entitled to it.””
We replaced food stamps with debit cards to spare the recipients from the shame of publicly displaying that they were on welfare.
I’ve heard it said America is the most generous nation on earth.
Debit cards:
I spent a number of minutes behind a woman in the Kroger line who finally had the cashier, the head cashier and the manager working on which items could be bought on which type of entitlement card (apparently one from her friend and two from her). Her phone was an item of interest as the time went by.