You have a very distorted imagination of just who welfare recipients are. Federal budget and Census data show that with welfare recipients,
53% of people are 65 and up.
20% of people are disabled.
18% have jobs with sub-survival pay.
9% goes to households with non-elderly, non-disabled people, without jobs.
Much of that 9% involves health care and unemployment insurance.
A very small fraction of of that 9% are "welfare queens". Yet the right wing acts as though they are the majority of welfare recipients.
I don't understand conservative thinking. In general what I see is that they:
(1) don't want welfare of any sort,
(2) don't want minimum wage to increase,
From the US Census Bureau,
“In 2013, there were 45.3 million people in poverty. For the third consecutive year, the number of people in poverty at the national level was not statistically different from the previous year’s estimate”
If conservatives get the “ideal” government they want just what do they think will happen to those 43.5 million people in poverty. Is there a plan? Do they even care?