Hrm, let's look that over:
MYTH: Poverty and homelessness have grown in spite of the trillions of dollars spent since 1965 to help the poor; therefore, these programs have failed.
Fact: I lied, they have gone up, but we're going to blame other things instead. The usual misdirection we see from progressives.
MYTH: Supporting welfare is a burden causing financial hardship to working class Americans.
Fact: Yes, we could reduce taxes by 12% by reducing these programs, but look! Let's misdirect and blame the rich this time! That damn top 1% of earners are earning money! WAAAA!
MYTH: Welfare recipients commit a lot of fraud, at the expense of American working people.
Fact: I never made this clam, and generally don't care if they're using the system (stealing my money) or abusing the system (stealing more of my money).
MYTH: Welfare dependency is the result of the moral failings of poor people: addiction, unwillingness to work, lack of family values and sexual control.
Fact: It's cause by 1) living beyond your means and not making a safety net 2) poor planing 3) bad impulse control.
MYTH: People are poor because they are lazy.
"Single parents on welfare are certainly not lazy: ask any parent how "restful" it is to be at home with a small child!"
Considering that I've been both a full time worker and a stay at home parent... I'd take stay at home parent any day. Damn easiest "job" I've ever had.
"All parents, not only welfare mothers, should have the choice of staying home to care for their own children"
Only if they can afford to do so. Otherwise they should do what they need to do to support the family, or manage to live more within their means.
MYTH: Welfare rewards people for doing nothing, destroying their dignity and character.
"A study by the Cato Institute claimed to prove that welfare paid better than work (at least, low-wage work) therefore logically no one would choose to work if they could go on welfare! The study, however, was later shown to be flawed."
The flawed link no longer works. And I agree that some would still work (just as some will always take advantage), basic human behavior dictates that those between the extremes will shift towards accepting welfare.
"In March 1987, the General Accounting Office released a report that summarized more than one hundred studies of welfare since 1975. It found that "research does not support the view that welfare encourages two-parent family breakup""
The black family would have much to say about that. Oh, wait, they don't break up because they were never married in the first place. But momma does kick daddy out of the house because it is in her best financial interest to do so (he can't earn enough to replace the government subsidies).
So, they US is going to see what the UK already does (from my link, which you apparently ignored):
Back in the mists of time before the Pill, all-women short-lists and Harriet Harman, relationships between men and women were based on a bargain between the sexes which, although never stated openly, everyone accepted as a given.
Women realised they needed the father of their children to stick around to help bring them up.
In turn, men committed themselves to the mothers of their children on the basis that they could trust they were indeed the father because the woman was sexually faithful.
Today, this bargain has been all but destroyed. A number of factors have conspired to make women and girls think they can go it alone without men.
The first has been that so many women work and are therefore economically independent. Next was the sexual revolution which saw women becoming as sexually free as men.
In short order, any stigma over having babies out of wedlock was abolished. Then there was the collapse of manufacturing industry, which deprived many boys of the job prospects which once made them an attractive, marriageable proposition.
Finally, the coup de grace was administered by welfare benefits to single mothers which enabled them to live without the support of their babies' fathers.