Nancy Pelosi thinks that taxpayers should pay for people exactly like this guy, as well as for “artists” who want to hang out in their “studios” and “be creative”, etc. She actually said so, very clearly. Check this out (about 37 seconds):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRY7Wvim8-8
Benjamin Franklin was right. “I observed that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves.”