Then go to the "government cheese" model with transportation as well. Taxi tokens, housing voutures, but not cash. Do greater than 50% of recipients abuse the system? Probably not. Don't really know, and if we did, I don't think we would do anything about it. It's the anecdotes that piss us off. The cart full of stuff that we don't buy because it's not a good value; the I-phone on the ear being held by the hand full of bling attached to the arm full of tats holding the designer purse.... that's what gets the blood boiling. How dare people be permitted to spend your hard-earned money that way. Government cheese, my friend. Self respect? Dignity? "Rights of the consumer"? Check it at the door when you sign up for the give-aways. Edit: I'm also referring to the able-bodied here. I do not include the elderly, MRDD, or the legitimately disabled in my rant. A society with a conscience will not allow those that need help to go without. But we need to define "need" a little more carefully.