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"Not one of these, our citizens, should ever be abandoned to the indignity of charity. Charity is indignity when you have to have it. But we don't want these people to have anything to do with charity and we don't want them to have any idea of hopeless despair."

I was a child when LBJ became a "god", amazing isn't it, Christ Himself said there would always be poor among you and what those that have were to do about it. LBJ was really really filled with himself.

Charity has two beneficiaries, the giver and the receiver. It actually feels good to help someone and the closer to you the better.

Government programs have two beneficiaries also, a receiver who is often disgruntled and feels entitled to the charity, and the politicians who take credit for giving it to them though they gave nothing of their own. The true giver, the taxpayer, is not a beneficiary, has no pleasure in giving as his money is simply taken from him, thrown into a large pot for the politicians to divide, and is distant and unseen by the receiver. The result is there is no pleasure in giving and no appreciation in receiving.

Add to that the huge bureaucracies that are created just to handle the money, and in this case the millions of healthcare related personnel, and the costs skyrocket as does fraud.

The government workers are automatic contributors to the Democrat Party through their union, whether they like it or not. The Democrats smile, wave, and take full credit for being such caring people when all they did was scam the taxpayer out of money for which the politician got the credit.