You make a fair point.
But human nature is what it is. I believe welfare, to a very significant extent, discourages achievement and brings misery.
If this were not true, we wouldn’t have a reason to oppose it in the first place.
I don’t oppose the idea of safety nets, as long as it’s the state that is providing it because I don’t believe that the power to operate compulsory social programs is granted to the Federal govt in the Constitution. People can find themselves down on their luck and I think it is moral for the state to help them, can’t watch people starving in the streets.
I oppose the idea of it as a way of life, however, and that is what the C/P strategy is about. But they have to have people willing to sit there on it. My life is a story of rags to upper middle class and I didn’t get there by choosing to sit around on handouts all my life, nor did I ever take any, although as a young single mom at one point, I could have.