While there are a lot of people who do try to game the system, I think it's better to let a few thousand welfare cows sit and watch TV and get fat than to doom many more thousand good, productive people who fell through the cracks and couldn't climb out on their own.
As someone else said in another thread, you can't just do nothing with poor people. You can either help them stop being poor, which is what most developed nations do, or you can kill them. You can't just tell them, "sorry, we can't help you, you have to help yourself."
Because they will.
To your stuff.
