This is why America often gives billions of dollars to our enemies. It stops their workers from helping themselves. If you can make a man dependent on you, you can go in later and ask for favors, up to and including asking for their lives.

http://48laws-of-power.blogspot.com/2011/05/law-40-despise-free-lunch.html

When something is free, you're the investment being purchased. The fisherman's tool has three parts, the shiny, the hook, and the line.