Solictr, I work at a crisis hotline on Fridays. I have talked to a few hustlers who are trying to get around the system, but I have talked with hundreds of people who are homeless, hungry, beaten by their spouse or parents or children, cheated on by their employers, mentally ill, drug-addicted, developmentally delayed, in chronic pain, or a combination of the above. They aren't trying to use the system, they are just trying to get in out of the cold, or get a hot meal, or find some way to pay their electric bill. I don't know what "community" your quote comes from, but for people in my community - across racial, ethnic and nationality boundaries - the getting of benefits (which is difficult to do) is not like a "favored contact sport".
Have you ever considered working with the poor instead of talking about them?