> weirdly, lots of people admitting to this in social media.

How do you know those aren't bots?

>there’s rampant abuse of this and other programs - and weirdly, lots of people admitting to this in social media.

oh yes, a few hundred people getting som eextra food constitutes an egregious waste of taxes that warrant our collective outrage

as oppossed to..

* a lavicious birthday/military parade

* a ballroom bigger than the white house being built while air traffic controllers arent' being paid

* billions of dollars being sent to subsidize argeninian beef

* billions sent to a theorcratic nationstate hell bent on committing genocide

>there’s rampant abuse of this and other programs - and weirdly, lots of people admitting to this in social media.

I think a good chunk of how we got here is people defining words like “rampant” to mean “I saw it on my phone”. This statement is literally “this is happening everywhere all the time in overwhelming amounts. I know this because it was on the apps on my phone”