Of course you’re only joking. When work requirements were active, the people who left welfare went on permanent Disability—an even worse option. Then Obama gutted the reforms, but the lesson had been learned. The Disability rolls have exploded, & once on you can never be removed. A perfect example of DC ‘fixing’ a problem by making it 100x worse.
Welfare Reform was effective for almost a decade. The disability gambit took off after Zero took over. It took the Republicans booting their control of the government to enable the left to undo the improvement.