That people make poor choices I don't dispute, but they also don't have the option to make better choices. The choice is "terrible or shitty". Not "terrible and help you get back on your feet."

The reason the government wastes so much money is because the government designed the system specifically to keep poor people just fucked enough that they give up and vote in their new master, same as the old master.

Back when I was poor, the first bit of advice I was always given was to "stop going to Starbucks everyday". The first time I was given that particular pearl of wisdom, I'd had Starbucks precisely once in my life and some coworker had brought it to work.

You want people to not be poor but fat? Provide useful tools to get back on their feet that isn't guided by government and industry to keep a perpetual anf viable underclass of serfs.