I'm telling you... start cutting off the drug supply chain and watch it all turn around. Kill anybody dealing hard drugs, 1 appeal, 1 year max imprisonment before the sentence is carried out. When the supply line dries up, what's left will be so expensive that the majority won't be able to afford it. Welfare needs to be this: Meals, housing, clothing, and medicine for children and those with real disabilities, and also for those that are of age and not disabled, but are under-employed (note, I didn't say not working). Those that are able and will not work... tough. You had better be a good dumpster diver. It has to be tough but compassionate, which is a difficult balance to acheive. The only thing we've done so far is create a dependent social class that is trapped in their poverty.