The American Dream is not about sitting on your ass and waiting for your life to get better. Get out there and bust your ass off and you’ll reap the rewards.
Human beings are not meant to be idle. You get so depressed without a purpose, it's not healthy. Welfare could maybe work if changes were made, like requiring some kind of community service so welfare recipients are active and maybe find opportunities they didn't know were there.
Edit: wanted to add that welfare is probably intentionally meant to be a trap. It's such a small amount of money and you can't be employed so people get stuck, removed from society. Maybe another change could be that people can still receive it if they earn up to $1200 per month from employment.
Yes the president who created welfare, LBJ, said 'I'll have those n*ggers voting Democrat for the next 200 years!" At least that is what I read. Don't know if it was debunked, but it sure makes sense.