What
we tend to veer away from is facing that such destructive,
life-distorting policies are deliberate.  That isn't conspiracy
theory.  Basic party theory on the right is to minimize government by
"starving the beast."  You don't need to vote a program away, just
remove the funding and let it dry up and blow away, or savage itself. 
This is the ugly underbelly of Puritanism - if God materially rewards
the good, then the poor are not unfortunate but are the deserving poor
- that is, deserving to be poor.