I agree, especially your last point.  One of those signs lists X number (not fully visible) of new Medicaid signings as if this is progress.  What these people don't get is that Medicaid is rapidly heading towards the point where it implodes.  The math doesn't work.  It's too bad, because some folks genuinely need it.  But we're heading towards a bad movie, because the entitlement junkies don't know how to function on their own. 

When a safety net becomes a gameplan, everybody loses.  It's that simple.