The purpose of welfare isn’t the well being of the recipients. It’s to fuel the monster known as big government.
Welfare should help the disabled. It should not be a way of life for the able bodied.
The purpose of welfare was to keep the starving masses from tearing rich bastards like FDR limb from limb and burning down his house. The rich are still rich, the poor are more numerous, and you and I get to pay for all of it. Isn’t communism wonderful?