I think it is in human nature to work. It is also human nature to take a handout. Proponents of the welfare state need only look at the Reservation system to see what the results will be. The government took a group of hardy subsistence cultures and destroyed them in just a couple generations. We did the same thing to poor families with welfare, but it isnt as apparent because those people still have iPhones and big screen TVs.
PRIVATE PROPERTY.
HOME OWNERSHIP.
EDUCATIONAL CHOICE.
NO MORE PATERNALISM.
There—that fixes it.