God no.
It should be reformed and enhanced accordingly though.
True enough. In fact, the mantra about wanting people to work kind of needs some fleshing out. People presume that incentives to work mean make it harder to stay on by way of kicking you off benefits for various things.
While that may work for some, there's a lot built into our public policies which deincentivize working and independent living by penalize you too harshly for increasing your success. I'll use a personal example here, since that's easier to explain in detail. My sibling receives assistance due to his disability. That disability isn't going anywhere, no matter what. In fact, that disability was as a result of medical malpractice. He didn't ask for it at 4 years old, but there it was all the same. So he needs services and medical help, and a lot of it. It would be too much cashflow for even an ordinary fairly-well off blue collar worker to deal with a significant hourly wage and work hours. So he gets government aid to essentially stay even in terms of feeling
normal for the day. He loves work, he excels at it and puts most of his coworkers to shame with his near-perfect record. But with federal services, he cannot work more than a certain number of hours or make just X much money, or else those services start fading pretty damn quickly. He also has to spend all that he earns in order to stay in the government's good graces. Many conservatives see the word "spend" and think "oh goody, he's getting a bunch of toys and nice things with tax payer support." Well, not really. He absolutely hates it. He's
required to spend down so he can continue to live his incredibly modest life---but no more. You should have seen him when he was required to spend down. We went to the furniture store and he was grumbling the whole damn time. Sure, he could have used a better mattress...but why are they "making me waste all of this money when I want to save for a home?" It was
degrading.
There is absolutely no incentive for him to climb the ladder, because he can't make too much of lose services that mere mortals can hardly pay for (my parents went near-broke doing so on their salaries when he was a kid). He's renting an apartment that is thankfully cheap, but he's incredibly vulnerable. Rent costs are on the average a few times higher than he's paying, due to the boom. Any higher than that and he's looking to living with mom and dad for the foreseeable future. So what's a sob to do? Buy property. Except he cannot save up for his own home. Government says so. He's required to not save a dime, he's required to work less, and he's required, and if he wanted to get married, government
dramatically punishes him for that too (want to know why marriage rates for people with disabilities is so low? Look to that). Even the recently-passed ABLE Act only allows significant savings on "disability-related expenditures only." The regs are still being created, but that's not necessarily a promising sign for anyone with a disability wanting to accomplish the American dream.
In the pursuit of "pulling yourself by your bootstraps" government social safety nets, government often times does the
opposite to the human spirit. Do you think this supposedly conservative idea fostered the ideals of conservatism in him? Nah. He's wanting to pursue conservative ideals
in spite of conservatives.