That the state spends money to help the destitute and that some of those might be not-quite-destitute and therefore by some logic defrauding the state really se

That the state spends money to help the destitute and that some of those might be not-quite-destitute and therefore by some logic defrauding the state really seems to irk people in ways that always surprise me. As you say, why focus on the pennies involved when waste in the military (at least in the US) and other fraud against the government (such as Medicare fraud) is magnitudes more? The main defender of this point would've been better off taking the money earned during the time writing his comment, donating it to a shelter (because a lot of charity is not government funded), and never thinking about the issue again. Yet you can just see how it gets under his skin.