Would the end of "welfare" in the US be a horror or a great event?

The welfare system should be abolished. It should not exist. An 18 year old with a child needs to live in their parents home. They brought the child into this world so they need to support it. Not the working people. Who made the decision for someone to have 7 kids that they can not afford to raise? It certainly wasn't the taxpayer. Therefore they should not be penalized. I know a guy who is 26 with a tumor in his chest. They don't know if it is on his heart or beside it. He can not get assistance because he worked up until a few weeks ago. His surgery is in a couple of weeks. So this guy who works can't get assistance. But if he were a bum that didn't work he would get everything in the world. What the heck is wrong with that picture. The working man needs to be healthy before the non-working. The working man feeds the system with taxes. Without him it would all cease to exist. Welfare people should have to pick up trash along the road if nothing else. I bet if welfare people had to contribute something to society like picking up trash along the highway they would find jobs. Some people are content with nothing and will take anything.

There has always been some form of welfare even if it just meant the right to work and live in the "poor house" or "work house". Welfare can certainly be reformed but it can't be abolished without a new interpretation of the first amendment. Welfare is considered a right under the "right to petition for redress of a grievance". That has always been broadly interpreted as the right to petition for aid.

I wouldn't end the welfare system, but perhaps change the rules so that the truly needy can get it and those who are not needy cannot. For example, people who have a certain amount of income, investments, etc., would not be allowed to get a social security check if they are already financially secure. Save those checks for the people who truly are in need. If the waste was removed from the welfare systems then people could have a safety net just in case they ever really need it instead of getting it when they don't.