No, I think we should revise our Welfare System that rewards them for being poor, and actually penalizes them for learning job skills that can get them into better-paying jobs.

Denmark's system might be a good model to follow.  If you lose your job, they provide a generous, but temporary, subsidy that allows you to maintain your lifestyle, while IMMEDIATELY putting you into a job skills training program in a field where the government determines there is demand, with the objective of getting you back to work as soon as possible (within months).  If you are not attending and making progress, you will be dropped from the program and get no welfare at all.  Denmark has zero tolerance for slackers; everyone is expected to work and pay into the system, and they do NOT have large standard deductions.  Tax rates close to 60% begin about about $3,000/yr of income.  They spend 10 times as much per capita on job skills training as we do.