That's exactly why we are in the spot we are in today... govt handouts! It was the Democrats way of leading the sheep to the slaughter. "Give them handouts and it will make them fat and lazy and we can do what we want". That's why they have so many people so dependent on them that they can't be free and are too scared to stand up to them... afraid of that handout being cut off. It's why they've been able to do so much and get by with it and the lowly peasants just have to suck it up.