It really is a candle that burns from both ends.

On one side it negatively affects outcomes because so many programs are ones where recipients learn only to receive services rather than to achieve much of anything.  The other side of the candle burns because individuals in society slough off God commanded good works thinking that the charity their tax dollars provide should be more than enough.

The more responsibility that individuals abdicate, the more deemed authority our government feels it must shoulder in providing services.