There are millions PLAYING the system!
Heard about several couples (kind of like an entitlement club), who discovered they can legally separate and BOTH can receive gov't housing, unemployment, health insurance, food stamps, and a few other gov't goodies. They live in one gov't-provided house and rent the other to an illegal for all cash. They take the food stamp stipend and buy almost all specific foods and run an all-cash business on the weekends from a make-shift food truck. They work about 10 hours a week and pay ZERO in taxes on what they make. They have several hundred coming in cash from an illegal tenant. They go to the doctor when they want, courtesy of the good old US taxpayer.
Keep in mind that ALL of these couples are not homeless or uneducated or stupid or disabled. They figured out how to manipulate the system and live off the backs of other working people, and they are PROUD of their "accomplishment!"
If the gov't was TRULY interested in stopping this entitlement abuse, getting taxes on all the illegal drug trade, curbing drug trade (hint -- the gov't is the largest importer of illegal drugs, so NOT interested in changing this), and balancing the budget while being FAIR from the disabled person to the guy making $7.50 an hour to the guy making $1 million and working 16 hour days to keep his business productive, they would abolish the IRS and institute a FAIR consumption tax.
Why don't they even consider this? Because THEY, the gov't, are involved in so many illegal things, and it all depends on the HUGE federal systems in place. They are not about to actually change things for the betterment of the country and the people. Everything is done for the benefit of the .01% Top federal employees, top corporation heads, top banksters -- all in one big bed together.
Anyone who believes differently is an ostrich.