We offshored our production jobs, the key to wealth creation.
Put yourself in the place of just about ANY consumer products company (General Mills, Apple, etc) or retail store (Walmart, Target, etc). All they care about is growth and profits. They do not care where the $$ comes from. It is all green to them, whether it comes from people who actually earn it or comes from people on the dole. In fact, by their reckoning, it is probably quicker and more efficient for Government to just GIVE people the $$ to spend. At one point in time, these companies might have cared who their customers were (as productive citizens are better for the country), but it has not been that way for some decades now.
In the end, more Government clients means more profits for them. It’s Capitalism gone wild.