We have some of that in the Mississippi River Delta as well. People who say they can make more at home than they can working. Plus many on "disability" who spend the summers working on the rice farms for cash. On top of the disability they get food stamps and subsidies.
I remember when I was a kid(which wasn't that long ago) most churches maintained some sort of food closet that had canned goods and what not donanted by various church members. When someone in the church fell on hard times the church would give them food from the closet and take some money from a fund that had been donated to buy things like meat and milk. I also remember the church taking up "love offerings" for different ones that had fallen on hard times to help pay different bills. Then when I was a teenager people would come in that we had never seen before demanding help because they heard we had given it to others. They didn't care that they others were members of the church and had contributed to helping others in the past. So a lot of those things don't exist anymore. People had gotten tired of being burned by free loaders and bums.
My brother in law, who is a minister, says people call his office all the time and ask if his church pays peoples light bills. No hi how are doing, just do yall pay light bills.
