Your judgementalness is showing.

There are equally likely explanations for people sitting around drinking. Maybe they don't work first shift. Maybe they're on vacation. Maybe they're disabled for some reason.

The fact that you leap to "oh the government pays them to be unemployed" is on you, not the government or them.

(also note that it's increasingly difficult to get SNAP benefits in states due to budget cut backs)

There are still more than 2 unemployed people per job opening in the US.[1] So there is in fact a lack of jobs and work needing to be done.

[1] http://www.bls.gov/web/jolts/jlt_labstatgraphs.pdf

When do you ever see someone paying with "green stamps?" All the states and territories moved to EBT cards some time back. Your story about seeing a woman hop out of her "Escalade" to pay with food stamps reeks of Conservative Racial Dog-whistling.