Geez.

When you start giving these things away, you remove the motivation for people to work to have them.

My mortgage is $1,600.00 a month. Hell, if the government is going to give me and my family a place to live, fuck it. Why should I bother making mortgage payments?

They're gonna' make sure I have food? Sweet! That'll mean I can save several hundred dollars a month on groceries. Not only that, but they're going to make sure that I have health coverage and an education, so I can get a better job, get paid more, and not have to spend my money on anything.

When you don't work for something, you don't appreciate it nearly as much as if you'd worked hard for it....