The government assistance program that issued Food Stamps that could be used to obtain basic staples – such as cheese (as well as bread and milk) to  people who'd fallen upon hard times and otherwise might not eat? The idea being particularly to make sure children and older people who couldn't provide for themselves would not starve.

Maybe it is just a memory.

Somewhere along the line, Food Stamps became SNAP – Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program – and instead of Food Stamps, people (including abled-bodied men) were issued a credit card (or at least, one that looked like it was that) and it could be used to buy soda, potato chips – even sushi.

Instead of not starving, people got obese. And entitled rather than grateful.

Now – tomorrow – the free lunch (and breakfast and dinner) is going to end, apparently –  and there are predictions of mayhem and even cannibalism. Maybe some of the able-bodied men who can no longer buy sushi will do the unthinkable and get a job. This latter – the italicized words – are regarded as harsh by some tender-hearted folk. Why? Is there any legitimate excuse for a man – a young man, especially – who is physically and mentally capable of doing work not working?

It is one thing to have compassion for women with children – and of course men and women who are literally unable to work on account of age or physical/mental disability. This is not a defense of forcing anyone to "help" those who need help. Charity ought to be just that. Government "help" is not charitable because it involves the use of coercion to extract money from A to "help" B. Whether "B" is legitimately "in need" is beside the point. The use of violence – coercion – except in self-defense is always immoral, regardless of the supposedly "compassionate" ends.