Individual Examples of Our Welfare Society

Am I being hard-hearted for noticing these two stories? . . .

I saw a friend comment about a Facebook post where the poster had observed an attempt to use an EBT card to purchase alcohol and cigarettes.  Actually, the first step was to use the EBT card in an ATM to change into cash. The liquor store owner refused to sell the alcohol to the person, but it seems like an easy loophole to bring cash obtained from some other EBT ATM transaction to purchase such items.

The same day, The Washington Post published an article about a blind woman who uses something called Metro Access to get to her job.  It was a fairly long article with a lot of background on this woman, who seems like a good person.  Metro Access is a taxi service subsidized by public transportation monies for the disabled.  The article stated that it is required due to the ADA law.  One of the reasons for the article was to highlight the fact that potential new Metro fare hikes will hit the disabled hard.  They are asked to pay 200% of the equivalent Metro fare for the use of the Metro Access taxi ride.  Currently, that works out to be a maximum of $7 a ride.  Such personalized service obviously costs far more than $7.00 though.  In fact, the total spent by Metro Access is $114 Million for 2 Million rides.  Which works out to a cost of $57 a ride.  Total revenue is $8 Million, an average of $4.00 a ride.  (One thing that bothered me about the blind woman is that she now lives with a man who is perfectly capable of driving her to an from work.  But she doesn't want to out him out. She'd rather have society pay her way, I guess.)