So Poor People Getting Money Makes Them "Dependent", But Politicians Taking Money Doesn't?

In the US, elected Republicans often claim that poor people shouldn't get assistance, because then they become "dependent" on that money. Isn't it interesting that those very same people claim that the millions of dollars they take from for example Wall Street banks doesn't make them dependent on them as well?

After Wall Street's reckless gambling crashed the US economy in 2008, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, who got millions of campaign funds from these banks came together to give them a bailout worth hundreds of billions of dollars. Are we really supposed to believe that those two things were not connected? This bailout worth billions of dollars in tax payer money didn't even come under the condition that the very CEOs who crashed the economy get fired. In fact many of them actually received bonuses during the fallout of the crash. Normally when your company almost goes bankrupt, shareholders fire the manager, but in this case because of the bailout, shareholders actually made quite some money at the end of the day.

Maybe they think that giving money to powerful government officials is just "free speech". Ok, then who are they to say I can't use my "1st Amendment Right" to donate a few thousand bucks to a police officer who caught me with 150 mph on the highway? Who are they to say I can't "convince" a prostitute to sleep with me, using nothing but "free speech" in the form of money? (Sidenote: Prostitution should actually be legal, it already is in most of Europe)

I think I made my point. While some Republican voters may feel like the policies, that Republican elected officials support, would benefit the country, I believe many politicians really just do them because they get money from special interest, who they serve through the might of the government. Another important policy is Medicare For All, which 70% of the public supports, with even 52% of Republicans in support vs. 37% against. And yet these politicians don't pass it, because they take massive amounts of money from the health insurance industry. https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-election-progressives/