Im a minister an I have worked with drug addicts, alcoholics and welfare type people for 25 years, almost everything the goverment does is a complete waste of time and money, chiefly because they do not know what is really happening in the slums, barrios and housing complexes.
They think they know, and they have a belief n people that is far from reality.
And, while they may not know what is happening in them, government has done much to create and populate the slums, barrios and housing complexes.
"Active intervention" having failed, we might be advised to try some "benign neglect".
The dems are blissful in their ignorance and happy with the warm fuzzy feeling that they are 'helping' (from afar) with their tax funded 'aid' and big brotherly attitude. Any failures they attribute to the need for more funding (for more failing programs).