A friend of mine works in welfare (a state worker) and has told me most people there don't really need anything. They simply take whatever they can, and they sell or trade what they don't need.

And what's even worse: many people turn violent if you don't give them whatever they ask for. So they had to put policemen there all day because they had hit the state workers many times.

You know, I'm a socialist, but these kinds of stories really make me turn libertarian there for a moment.

(This in Europe)