Perhaps you've been living in a cave for a while, but welfare programs are incredibly abused.
Yes, and here you are, picking and choosing what you want to believe and disregarding what you don't want to.  Clearly you don't know what the Magisterium is, what makes a dogma a dogma, what authority any pope has or doesn't have.
Stick to the original topic please, because I can only deal with one rabbit hole at a time.