It was all terrible. I don’t know how to solve it, because I am on the side of we should just help people and then the help turns out to be not help or corruption. My mother’s job was actually determining whether a person qualified to have Medicare/caid pay for a nursing home and she was dogged in ferreting out money transfers to avoid paying themselves for care-she was incensed by people giving money to their children. But it also made her very wary of any sort of help.

I also sort of have a problem with WIC- its intentions are good, but people also need diapers. So then these little mini marts falsify things so people can get diapers and they ring up formula, but they charge the folks an exorbitant amount for the diapers.

I still sort of believe in a universal basic income, but that will get corrupt too.