By Matthew Lesh The government is right to be focused on getting people off welfare dependency and into work, but we shouldn’t be too optimistic about its chances of success, says Matthew Lesh In 1906, William Beveridge declared that those who cannot work should be maintained by public support. The condition, however, would be the “complete and permanent loss of all citizen rights – including not only the franchise but civil freedom and fatherhood.” Like many of the era, Beveridge, the godfather of the welfare state and post-war expansion in state benefits, was a proud eugenicist. By compariso…