School lunch programs. I'm old enough to remember "hungry kids." After they were instituted there were no more hungry kids in my school.
I am told my family qualifies for reduced lunch/free lunch at our local Catholic school. The program has morphed into some quasi funding program.
Also ask consider this: First we had assistance programs because people didn't have enough money to live on.
Then we found out people would take their assistance checks and cash them and still have not enough money to live on.
So we come up with some new programs called housing assistance and Food stamps so the money would get spent on the right things.
We didn't just modify the assistance system already in place, no we created new programs which needed people to run them and desks for the people to set behind to do their work and budgets to fund the program.
Then we found out these folks getting food stamps still sent their kids to school without food or a way to pay for it.
Did we modify the present system? Nope. We created a new program with new people to run it and new desks to sit behind with a new budget...
Makes you wonder if we are making programs to help people or are we making programs to make government bigger?!?!