Respond to someone's opinion on politicians and their tendency to provide handouts and engage in shady politics.
IRT "Get freeloaders off state highways"
Human nature is that when one is incompetent under a ticking timebomb, he furiously runs in circles.  Where you are incompetent but can't be seen sitting still, then what else is there but to hand out "free food, medical, phones, child care, books and toys, and free real estate (illegal squatting on city and state land), housing and similar"?  Has politics ever been different throughout history?