Personal responsibility is something we need more of and we need to impress upon everyone how vital that is to improving the human condition, every bit as important as a full stomach and more so. But we also can't be blind to real hurdles in opportunity presented by things like generational poverty. It's not a blank check to set low goals or forgive crimes and I'm not suggesting we should dump more money into the various mostly feel-good urban renewal projects and similar but there's a difference between not accepting any of the current proposed solutions as morally valid and financially efficient and just writing the whole problem off like it doesn't exist.

As a general note, I don't know if you're dead serious or engaging in a bit of hyperbole but whichever the case sounding like the antagonist from a Dickens novel ain't exactly helping the anti-welfare-state brand name. The general goal of that cause is to convince people that the welfare state reinforces generational poverty and feelings of depression and being trapped, not to say we have no responsibility to the poor. In fact it doesn't matter if we have that responsibility or not, as the philosophy revolves around the notion that enhancing feelings of self-determination, the control of ones own fate, represents a profitable investment; lowering crime and law enforcement cost and raising the tax base and pool of innovators and makers. Personally I think there's a moral imperative in there too, but that's merely an added personal incentive.

So again, big difference between noting a slum is a gigantic soul-crushing pit that imports money and exports crime and despair, and just shrugging it off with a fuck 'em attitude.