Funny when liberals ignore evidence.

Welfare has many deleterious effects, including encouraging laziness (in people I know, BTW), discouraging the nuclear family, and reducing employment (best demonstrated by the current difficulty of finding workers because people are getting COVID welfare).

The evidence is clear: the US now has a permanent welfare culture that is destroying the people it is supposed to help, while greatly increasing crime.

Democrats ignore the problems of welfare.

Most Republicans understand that some social safety net is needed, but that it needs to be well tailored to protect the helpless while discouraging freeloading, and minimizing the terrible effects it has had on families.

The author paints a Manichaean picture, but reality is more complex.