Around $12B. Add in benefit transfers to farmers, free food for 80% of the pop, we spend more than our def, edu and health budgets combined at central level on these leeches.

I remember esp one vid that still makes me seethe. This femoid standing in front of an extremely run down hovel even by rural standards, literally some bricks piled on top of each other with no plaster and like 5 foot high. She would have been getting cash transfers for years by that point in her situation I'd save up a year's worth of those and do something about my home. Remember she also gets free food, kids have free schooling(and free uniforms, books everything they'd need+meals at school). Basically all cash purchases for that class of person is discretionary. If the cash had been used for something productive it'd still be one thing. But only concrete difference I've seen in villages in my state is mushrooming fast food stores and beauty parlours. But anyway she was very happy with govt for giving her alms. Giggling even. Standing in front of that.

and did literally nothing wrong. Peasants need to be whipped into civilized behaviour.