“Growing numbers of Americans on food stamps, jobs preserved by bailouts, people living on extended unemployment payments and people behind in their mortgage payments being helped by government interventions are all potential voters for those who rescued them — even if their rescuers are the reason for hard times, in the first place. “
Marxist Hegelian dialectic in action. Government makes things worse, then rides in on a white horse to help. Gaining dependent votes in the mean time.