There is no need to even debate the specifics of programs like these. We can look to history to see how Socialist systems turn out. They may go on for a little while, decades even, but in the end the needs outweigh the available capital to pay for them eventually bankrupting the system assuring NO ONE gets benefits. The most compassionate thing you can do for a person is to show them how to provide for their own needs and not acquiesce this responsibility to big government.