Living the life of luxury at government expense?

I saw a Facebook meme about how one should game the system to collect all sorts of government benefits and live the high life.

Seriously, people?

If you are poor - if you have been poor - if you have been forced to get government assistance to live, then you know damned well, you aren't living a life of luxury. At best, these benefits keep you from dying, starving, or living on the streets. In many cases, there are maximum time limits during which you can collect these benefits. In all cases, the amount of the benefits is pretty meager. A few hundred dollars a month in food stamps, perhaps a few hundred dollars a month in TANF, perhaps you get rent subsidies. None, or even the total of all is at best barely enough to get by. In many cases the amounts you get are set based on where you live, since they are funded by block grants to the states, and a lot of eligibility is based on what that state allows.

Medicaid will keep you from dying, if you qualify, and if you can get on the program. Again, the states have considerable control over who can even get on, and when the federal government expanded eligibility under the Affordable Care Act, some states refused the funds and the expansion. So we have folks sick and sometimes dying, who cannot get help even under Medicaid. Most states have more people who qualify and want to get on than the funds available to pay for them.
The meme also seems to imply that the reason we are running federal government deficits is because of benefits to poor people.

Bullshit. Repeat, bullshit.

We spend billions of dollars on subsidies to already profitable oil companies. We spend billions on agricultural subsidies to huge and very profitable agricultural conglomerates. We spend billions more to subsidize mega-corporations for import and export. We spend billions on military weapons which in some cases the military says it does not even need. We give billions in tax breaks to hedge fund managers, who have zero money at risk and make millions upon millions for their activities. Yet we are supposed to believe that assistance for poor people is breaking our budget?

What we have is some very wealthy people, who are also very greedy, who spend millions to convince average working people that "lazy" poor people are getting things at their expense. All this is so the wealthy folks can have even more billions, through tax cuts. We indeed have a class of "takers" in this country, but it is not the poor - it is the rich.