"What is meaningful is that that parasites are going to kill off the host someday."
When, and we are very close now, the lowest 50% of income earners pay zero income taxes, we'll have turned the corner toward economic and political disaster.
That said, the blame really belongs to the politicians. The lower income classes have no more control over this travesty than do any of the rest of us.
No. The blame lies with the voter.
Of course they have control. Government programs only exist as long as they have 'clients'. So if the 'clients' decline to use any of those services and reject the benefits they are offered, that government spending would disappear. Conservatives would place measures on local ballots and introduce bills in Congress to de-fund those programs, and they would pass easily without 'clients' creating a need for them.
The control is in the hands of the 'clients' receiving those government benefits.