Scenario 1:

A loser who doesn't pay attention in school and does not have the brains or ability to excel at anything goes out into the world and realizes that no one will pay them a dollar for a day's work because they fail to provide anything of value to society. Knowing full well they can't pay their own bills or anyone else's, they have children. They then ask the government (John Q. Taxpayer, that is) for a handout.

Scenario 2:

The government overreacts to a minor illness similar to the flu and shuts down the economy, putting 30+ million capable people out of work practically overnight, destroying entire industries in the process, all to save an infinitesimal number of people (0.03% to be precise) who would have died anyway from a variety of co-morbidities if they had caught the common cold.

I would argue Scenario 1 warrants no assistance but scenario 2 does, by virtue of the fact that we all want to work and are fully capable of working, yet the government's inept and irrational policies restrict us from doing so. They created the problem, so they're responsible for cleaning it up.

The best government is small government, and certainly a government that has little direct control over our lives, and the sooner people realize that the better off we'll all be.