How can you say that a poor person who gets his heating oil bill paid and is able to spend his limited resources on other things is not "benefitted" by the program that pays for that heating oil bill and which is funded by tax revenues?
simple question.
For the simple fact that they do not benefit and that next year, he/she will still be in need. But the OBVIOUS has always been a difficult concept for dimwits on the left.
You see, there is a LOT of wisdom and truth in the saying that if you give a person a fish, he/she will eat for a day; however, if you TEACH him/her to fish, he/she will eat for a lifetime.
Liberals merely seek to hand out the fish because it gives them a warm fuzzy feeling that they care more than anyone else while keeping people dependent on them and thus, in political power. Conservatives want to TEACH the poor to fish so they can be independent and feed themselves for a lifetime and thus, not needing a vast Government nanny state.
But alas, I am talking to the dunces who still believe that Government is the solution to all our social ills but ironically only Government run by arrogant leftists who arrogantly presume to know what is best for all of us; when the OTHER guys win elections, Government is hypocritically presumed to be bad by these same dunces.