Poverty is not having enough money. If the gov't gives you money, you are no longer in poverty.
Now, if your point is that the gov't payments don't actually solve the underlying issue, that I would agree with.
Now, if your point is that the gov't payments don't actually solve the underlying issue, that I would agree with.
My point is that once you start just giving money away - you shift to the early Massachusetts model...which leads to poverty and starvation. Even the most moral of men (can you argue that early puritans were more focused on morality than us?) will fail under a system that rewards sloth.