Do you remember reading about the days after the Civil War when word spread that the government was going to provide each freed slave with 40 acres and a mule so that they could be independent a well as free?

It never happened, of course. Probably just a cruel rumor.

The modern version goes like this:
"The government is going to give each family of survivors a debit card worth $2000." . . . . . . . . . . . . "No, they are not."
Howard