Neither complex, nor nuanced.
Game. Set. Match.
Goodbye.
He makes a distinction between welfare (handouts) and income. He believes that in many situations welfare needs to be diminished and income increased. He holds that situations that do not do this are not long-term solutions, and a program of prosperity that involves putting more people on welfare so that the remainder may have a higher income is not a good thing.
Do you prefer the government making decisions, and creating mechanisms and processes that lead to people with no income but surviving on welfare?