You point out the exception to the rule. Here’s my experience - the foodstamp/AFDC secretary shared an office with my secretary. She’d worked there for years and was becoming more and more upset over the same families, their children and their children’s children cycling through generation after generation forever. They’d come in smelling of booze and smoking and bragging about their latest bling to each other but complaining to her their children were starving. One day she’d had enough and quit. Why? Because the “clients” were raking in more money for sitting on their duffs than she did working 40 plus hours a week.
I understand that many “game” the system and that welfare can be generational. I’ve seen it too, but, I don’t think we should throw out the baby with the bath water. There are truly many who need help. I’ve worked at a local food pantry - well, it is a local place where 3 meals a day are served - and they allow anyone to eat there - it’s a Christan organization. I’ve seen the truly needy, and I’ve seen those who squander too - Jesus sat down the 5,000 and fed them all - he didn’t discriminate between those who were qualified and those who weren’t. He fed them all.